Author : Panu Poutvaara
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ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 16 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (122 download)
Book Synopsis Unemployment and Gang Crime by : Panu Poutvaara
Download or read book Unemployment and Gang Crime written by Panu Poutvaara and published by . This book was released on 2007 with total page 16 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Empirical evidence reveals that unemployment tends to increase property crime but that it has no effect on violent crime. To explain these facts, we examine a model of criminal gangs and suggest that there is a substitution effect between property crime and violent crime at work. In the model, non-monetary valuation of gang membership is private knowledge. Thus the leaders face a trade-off between less crime per member in large gangs and more crime per member in small gangs. Unemployment increases the relative attractiveness of large and less violent gangs engaging more in property crime. Violence, Crime, Gangs, Unemployment, Identity