Author: Pablo Fajnzylber
Publisher: World Bank Publications
ISBN: 9780821342404
Category : Social Science
Languages : en
Pages : 62
Book Description
A growing concern in most regions of the world is the heightened incidence of criminal and violent behavior, especially in the Latin American and Caribbean Region. This study uses a new data set of crime rates for a large sample of countries to analyze the determinants of national homicide and robbery rates. The authors describe a simple model of "incentives to commit crimes" by estimating several econometric models and utilizing empirical models to draw their conclusions.