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来源类型 | FEEM working papers "Note di lavoro" series |
规范类型 | 论文 |
Geographical Distribution of Crime in Italian Provinces: A Spatial Econometric Analysis | |
Teodora Erika Uberti; Maria Francesca Cracolici | |
发表日期 | 2008 |
出处 | Economy and Society |
出版年 | 2008 |
语种 | 英语 |
摘要 | For a long time social sciences scholars from different fields have devoted their attention to identifying the causes leading to commit criminal offences and recently lots of studies have included the analysis of spatial effects. Respect to the Italian crime phenomenon some stylized facts exist: high spatial and time variability and presence of "organised crime" (e.g. Mafia and Camorra) deep-seated in some local territorial areas. Using explanatory spatial data analysis, the paper firstly explores the spatial structure and distribution of four different typologies of crimes (murders, thefts, frauds, and squeezes) in Italian provinces in two years, 1999 and 2003. ESDA allows us to detect some important geographical dimensions and to distinguish crucial macro- and micro- territorial aspects of offences. Further, on the basis of Becker-Ehrlich model, a spatial cross-sectional model including deterrence, economic and socio-demographic variables has been performed to investigate the determinants of Italian crime for 1999 and 2003 and its "neighbouring" effects, measured in terms of geographical and relational proximity. The empirical results obtained by using different spatial weights matrices highlighted that socioeconomic variables have a relevant impact on crime activities, but their role changes enormously respect to crimes against person (murders) or against property (thefts, frauds and squeezes). It is worthy to notice that severity does not show the expected sign: its significant and positive sign should suggest that inflicting more severe punishments does not always constitute a deterrence to commit crime, but it works on the opposite direction. |
特色分类 | C21,K42 |
关键词 | Crime,Spatial Econometrics |
URL | https://www.feem.it/en/publications/feem-working-papers-note-di-lavoro-series/geographical-distribution-of-crime-in-italian-provinces-a-spatial-econometric-analysis/ |
来源智库 | Fondazione Eni Enrico Mattei (Italy) |
资源类型 | 智库出版物 |
条目标识符 | http://119.78.100.153/handle/2XGU8XDN/117536 |
推荐引用方式 GB/T 7714 | Teodora Erika Uberti,Maria Francesca Cracolici. Geographical Distribution of Crime in Italian Provinces: A Spatial Econometric Analysis. 2008. |
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