Crime and Social Interactions

Edward Ludwig Glaeser (), Bruce Sacerdote and Jose Scheinkman ()

The Quarterly Journal of Economics, 1996, vol. 111, issue 2, pages 507-48

Abstract: The high variance of crime rates across time and space is one of the oldest puzzles in the social sciences; this variance appears too high to be explained by changes in the exogenous costs and benefits of crime. The authors present a model where social interactions create enough covariance across individuals to explain the high cross-city variance of crime rates. This model provides an index of social interactions which suggests that the amount of social interactions is highest in petty crimes, moderate in more serious crimes, and almost negligible in murder and rape. Copyright 1996, the President and Fellows of Harvard College and the Massachusetts Institute of Technology.

Date: 1996
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