A study on the victimization in the city of São Paulo

Regina Madalozzo () and Giovanna Maia Furtado ()

Brazilian Journal of Political Economy, 2011, vol. 31, issue 1, 160-180

Abstract: This paper applies the crime economics theory to Brazilian data. Following Becker (1968), Hinderlang et al. (1978) and Cohen et al. (1981), we tested the microeconomic factors that influence crime and victimization. For this end, the two waves of research of victimization of the Instituto Futuro Brasil, 2003 and 2008, were used in an effort to identify the determinants of victimization and police notification, using probit model. The main results suggest the factors which impact significantly the probability of victimization are the demographic characteristics, economic conditions and personal habits. The models of “life style” and “opportunity” seem to have good performance. JEL Classification: C35; D69.

Keywords: economics of crime; victimization; determinants of criminality; binary‑choice models (probit); under‑reporting (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2011
References: Add references at CitEc
Citations:

Downloads: (external link)
https://centrodeeconomiapolitica.org.br/repojs/ind ... article/view/397/388 (application/pdf)

Related works:
This item may be available elsewhere in EconPapers: Search for items with the same title.

Export reference: BibTeX RIS (EndNote, ProCite, RefMan) HTML/Text

Persistent link: https://EconPapers.repec.org/RePEc:ekm:repojs:v:31:y:2011:i:1:p:160-180:id:397

Access Statistics for this article

More articles in Brazilian Journal of Political Economy from Center of Political Economy
Bibliographic data for series maintained by Brazilian Journal of Political Economy (Brazil) ().