RT Article
T1 How do Visitors Affect Crime?
JF Journal of quantitative criminology
VO 27
IS 3
SP 363
OP 378
A1 Grinols, Earl L. 1951-
A2 Mustard, David B.
A2 Staha, Melissa
LA English
YR 2011
UL https://krimdok.uni-tuebingen.de/Record/176714282X
AB This paper, which uses data on National Park visitors between 1979 and 1998 and every county in the United States, is the most exhaustive examination to date of how visitors affect crime. After controlling for many other factors that influence crime, the county-level regressions consistently indicate that national park visitors have no effect on either property or violent crime. These results are true for a variety of different measures of park visitors, for different empirical specifications, and for different regression formats. We therefore conclude that some visitor types have no impact on crime. This conclusion sheds light on the empirical issue of whether only some types of recreational visitors increase crime or whether visitors, regardless of their type, necessarily increase crime.
K1 Project cost-benefit
K1 National park visitors
K1 Crime
K1 Tourism
K1 Visitors
DO 10.1007/s10940-010-9128-0