| 来源类型 | Discussion paper |
| 规范类型 | 论文 |
| 来源ID | DP13120 |
| DP13120 Leaders in Juvenile Crime | |
| Carlos Diaz; Eleonora Patacchini; Thierry Verdier; Yves Zenou | |
| 发表日期 | 2018-08-17 |
| 出版年 | 2018 |
| 语种 | 英语 |
| 摘要 | This paper presents a new theory of crime where leaders transmit a crime technology and act as a role model for other criminals. We show that, in equilibrium, an individual's crime effort and crime decisions depend on the geodesic distance to the leader in his or her network of social contacts. By using data on friendship networks among U.S. high-school students, we structurally estimate the model and find evidence supporting its predictions. In particular, by using a definition of a criminal leader that is exogenous to the network formation of friendship links, we find that the longer is the distance to the leader, the lower is the criminal activity of the delinquents and the less likely they are to become criminals. This result highlights the importance of the closeness centrality of the leaders in explaining criminal behaviors. We finally perform a counterfactual experiment that reveals that a policy that removes all criminal leaders from a school can, on average, reduce criminal activity by about 20% and the individual probability of becoming a criminal by 10%. |
| 主题 | Public Economics |
| 关键词 | Crime leaders Social distance Criminal decision Closeness centrality |
| URL | https://cepr.org/publications/dp13120 |
| 来源智库 | Centre for Economic Policy Research (United Kingdom) |
| 资源类型 | 智库出版物 |
| 条目标识符 | http://119.78.100.153/handle/2XGU8XDN/541923 |
| 推荐引用方式 GB/T 7714 | Carlos Diaz,Eleonora Patacchini,Thierry Verdier,et al. DP13120 Leaders in Juvenile Crime. 2018. |
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