Shifting Patterns in Wisconsin Crime Rates

Steven Deller () and Melissa Deller
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Melissa Deller: U of Wisconsin, Whitewater

Staff Paper Series from University of Wisconsin, 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.

Date: 2005-12
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