RT Article
T1 Alternative Strategies for Identifying the Link Between Unemployment and Crime
JF Journal of quantitative criminology
VO 17
IS 4
SP 377
OP 390
A1 Levitt, Steven D. 1967-
LA English
YR 2001
UL https://krimdok.uni-tuebingen.de/Record/1764278879
AB 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.
K1 Natural experiments
K1 Methodology
K1 Time series
K1 Crime
K1 Unemployment
DO 10.1023/A:1012541821386