Alternative Strategies for Identifying the Link Between Unemployment and Crime

National-level time series data are a crude tool for distinguishing between two alternative behavioral explanations for a link between unemployment and crime. Consequently, inferences drawn from aggregate time series estimates are likely to be misleading. A more fruitful approach to learning about t...

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Main Author: Levitt, Steven D. (Author)
Format: Electronic Article
Language:English
Published: 2001
In: Journal of quantitative criminology
Year: 2001, Volume: 17, Issue: 4, Pages: 377-390
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Keywords:
Crime
Methodology
Natural experiments
Time series
Unemployment
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Summary:National-level time series data are a crude tool for distinguishing between two alternative behavioral explanations for a link between unemployment and crime. Consequently, inferences drawn from aggregate time series estimates are likely to be misleading. A more fruitful approach to learning about the link between unemployment and crime would be to utilize a menagerie of different methodological approaches such as cross-section and panel data analysis of less geographically aggregated areas, natural experiments, international data, individual-level data, and ethnography.
ISSN:1573-7799
DOI:10.1023/A:1012541821386