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T1 The Impact of Social Capital on Crime: Evidence from the Netherlands
A1 Akçomak, I. Semih
A2 ter Weel, Bas
LA English
UL https://krimdok.uni-tuebingen.de/Record/1866336932
AB This paper investigates the relation between social capital and crime. The analysis contributes to explaining why crime is so heterogeneous across space. By employing current and historical data for Dutch municipalities and by providing novel indicators to measure social capital, we find a link between social capital and crime. Our results suggest that higher levels of social capital are associated with lower crime rates and that municipalities’ historical states in terms of population heterogeneity, religiosity and education affect current levels of social capital. Social capital indicators explain about 10 percent of the observed variance in crime. It is also shown why some social capital indicators are more useful than others in a robustness analysis.social capital, crime, the Netherlands
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