RT Article
T1 A longitudinal study of the impact of home vacancy on robbery and burglary rates during the U.S. housing crisis, 2005-2009
JF Crime & delinquency
VO 62
IS 9
SP 1159
OP 1179
A1 Jones, Roderick W.
A2 Pridemore, William Alex
LA English
YR 2016
UL https://krimdok.uni-tuebingen.de/Record/1576870677
AB The growing empirical literature on the effects on crime of the recent housing crisis in the United States provides inconsistent results for a direct effect. Furthermore, no longitudinal studies examine the association between home vacancy and crime during the U.S. housing crisis. To address this question, we used a sample of 126 major metropolitan statistical areas (MSAs) within the United States for the period 2005-2009 and estimated random and fixed effects models. Results indicated that increasing rates of home vacancy during the housing crisis were significantly associated with burglary rates within and between MSAs but had no association with robbery rates after controlling for other important crime covariates. We discuss the theoretical and methodological implications of these findings.
K1 Home vacancy
K1 Housing crisis
K1 Crime
K1 Einbruchdiebstahl
K1 Leerstehende Häuser
K1 Immobilienkrise
K1 Anstieg
DO 10.1177/0011128714549656