Crime Trends and Police Expenditures

James Alan Fox
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James Alan Fox: Northeastern University

Evaluation Review, 1979, vol. 3, issue 1, 41-58

Abstract: All previous investigations into the effect of crime trends on appropriations for police protection have employed either inappropriate cross-sectional data or unrealistic singular lag structures. The model developed here involves a more reasonable lag structure and is estimated with time series data. The expenditure for police appears as a function of the crime rate with a lag structure that begins at two years, that contains geometrically declin ing coefficients, and that has a mean lag of 3.9 years.

Date: 1979
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DOI: 10.1177/0193841X7900300103

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