Alternative Strategies for Identifying the Link Between Unemployment and Crime

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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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Autor principal: Levitt, Steven D. 1967- (Autor)
Tipo de documento: Electrónico Artículo
Lenguaje:Inglés
Publicado: 2001
En: Journal of quantitative criminology
Año: 2001, Volumen: 17, Número: 4, Páginas: 377-390
Acceso en línea: Volltext (lizenzpflichtig)
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Palabras clave:
Natural experiments
Methodology
Time series
Crime
Unemployment
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Sumario: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