Shifting Patterns in Wisconsin Crime Rates

Steven Deller () and Melissa Deller

No 12627, Staff Papers from University of Wisconsin-Madison, Department of Agricultural and Applied Economics

Abstract: In this study we explore shifting patterns in crime across Wisconsin counties between 1990 and 2000. Building on the three core ecological theories of criminology including strain/anomie, social disorganization and economic rational choice theories we hypothesis that socioeconomic well-being can be used to identify predictable patterns of change in crime. The data generally support the notion that higher levels of socioeconomic well-being at the beginning of the period are associated with lower levels of both violent and property crime at the end of the study period.

Keywords: Institutional; and; Behavioral; Economics (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Pages: 39
Date: 2005
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DOI: 10.22004/ag.econ.12627

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