Property Crime in Canada : : An Econometric Study / / Kenneth Avio, C. Scott Clark.
This is the first attempt, using Canadian data and econometric techniques, to study property crime as rational economic behaviour. Supply-of-offences functions for five types of property crime are specified and estimated using provincial data for 1970-2. Both the probability of apprehension and the...
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| Place / Publishing House: | Toronto : : University of Toronto Press, , [2016] ©1976 |
| Year of Publication: | 2016 |
| Language: | English |
| Series: | Heritage
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| Physical Description: | 1 online resource (94 p.) |
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Table of Contents:
- Frontmatter
- Contents
- Acknowledgments
- Introduction
- 1. The extent of property crime in Canada
- 2. The economic model of crime
- 3. Data
- 4. Empirical results
- 5. Range of elasticities for 'true' offence rates: an illustration
- 6. Conclusion and recommendations for future research
- Appendices
- APPENDIX A. Derivation of expected sentence lengths
- APPENDIX B. Police and judicial crime classifications
- APPENDIX C. Two-stage least squares regression estimates of the supply-of-offences equations
- APPENDIX D. Ordinary least squares estimates of the supply-of-offences equations
- APPENDIX E. Data sources
- References