Crime and Beliefs: Evidence from Latin America

Rafael Di Tella, Javier Donna and Robert MacCulloch

MPRA Paper from University Library of Munich, Germany

Abstract: We find that perceptions of crime and individual experience with crime (crime victimization) are positively correlated with left-wing beliefs within countries, controlling for income and other correlates of ideology, in a sample for Latin American countries in the mid-1990’s.

Keywords: beliefs; crime; fairness; legitimacy of market. (search for similar items in EconPapers)
JEL-codes: E62 K42 P16 (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2007-08-21
References: View references in EconPapers View complete reference list from CitEc
Citations:

Downloads: (external link)
https://mpra.ub.uni-muenchen.de/67001/1/MPRA_paper_67001.pdf original version (application/pdf)

Related works:
Journal Article: Crime and beliefs: Evidence from Latin America (2008)
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:pra:mprapa:67001

Access Statistics for this paper

More papers in MPRA Paper from University Library of Munich, Germany Ludwigstraße 33, D-80539 Munich, Germany. Contact information at EDIRC.
Bibliographic data for series maintained by Joachim Winter ().