RT Article
T1 The Weight of Fear of Violence in Household Budgets
JF Criminal justice review
VO 46
IS 4
SP 510
OP 523
A1 Truzzi, Bruno
A2 Justus, Marcelo
A2 Kawamura, Henrique C.
A2 Conti, Thomas V.
LA English
YR 2021
UL https://krimdok.uni-tuebingen.de/Record/1778199216
AB This article investigates the relationship between the perception of violence and the spending on security goods and services in households. Individual microdata from a random national survey on family budget carried out in Brazil in 2008-2009 were used for modeling the household spending using two instrumental variables. The stability of results was checked by applying the Lasso-Gaussian regularization method in the selection of the statistically significant variables. Positive relationships were found between household spending on security goods and services and (i) the fear of insecurity at the household level, (ii) the neighbors’ spending on security, and (iii) the registered criminality, but no evidence was found on the relationship between the role of police on household spending on security goods and services.
K1 Lasso-Gaussian regularization method
K1 Household budget
K1 Violence
K1 Crime
K1 Insecurity
K1 Fear
DO 10.1177/07340168211038382