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Crime and Social Sanction

Paolo Buonanno, Giacomo Pasini and Paolo Vanin

No 71, "Marco Fanno" Working Papers from Dipartimento di Scienze Economiche "Marco Fanno"

Abstract: Social sanctions may be a strong deterrent of crime. This paper presents a formal model that relates crime and social sanction to social interaction density. We empirically test the theoretical predictions using a provincial level panel dataset on di erent crimes in Italy between 1996 and 2003. We exploit detailed demographic and geo-morphological information to develop exogenous measures of social interaction density. We estimate a spatial panel model by means of a GMM procedure and we nd that provinces with denser social interactions display significantly and substantially lower rates of property crime, but not of violent crime.

Keywords: Crime; Spatial Panel; Social Interaction; Social Sanction (search for similar items in EconPapers)
JEL-codes: A14 K42 Z13 (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Pages: 31 pages
Date: 2008-03
New Economics Papers: this item is included in nep-law, nep-soc and nep-ure
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