Crime and Sport Participation in Itay: Evidence from Panel Data Regional Analysis over the Period 1997-2003.\

Raul Caruso ()

No 904, Working Papers from International Association of Sports Economists, North American Association of Sports Economists

Abstract: What is the broad impact of sport participation and sport activities in a society? The first aim of this paper is tackling this crucial point by studying whether or not there is a relationship between sport participation and crime. A panel dataset have been constructed for the twenty Italian regions over the period 1997-2003. The impact of spot participation on different type of crimes has been studied. Results show that: (i) there is a robust negative association between sport participation and property crime; (ii) There is a robust negative association between sport participation and juvenile crime; (iii) There is a positive association between sport participation and violent crime, but it is only weakly significant.

Keywords: Sport participation; relational goods; crime (search for similar items in EconPapers)
JEL-codes: D62 L83 (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Pages: 16 pages
Date: 2009-06
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