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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1. VerfasserIn: Levitt, Steven D. 1967- (VerfasserIn)
Medienart: Elektronisch Aufsatz
Sprache:Englisch
Veröffentlicht: 2001
In: Journal of quantitative criminology
Jahr: 2001, Band: 17, Heft: 4, Seiten: 377-390
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Natural experiments
Methodology
Time series
Crime
Unemployment
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Zusammenfassung: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