Crime and Local Inequality in South Africa

Crime and Local Inequality in South Africa

The authors examine the effects of local inequality on property and violent crime in South Africa. Their findings are consistent with economic theories relating inequality to property crime, and also with sociological theories that imply that inequ...

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Main Authors: Demombynes, Gabriel, Ozler, Berk
Format: Policy Research Working Paper
Language:English
en_US
Published: World Bank, Washington, DC 2014
Subjects:
AGED
ANTISOCIAL BEHAVIOR
APPREHENSION
ASSAULT
ASSAULTS
BENEFITS OF CRIME
BURGLARY
COEFFICIENT ESTIMATES
COLLECTIVE ACTION
COMPLAINTS
CONFLICT
COST OF CRIME
COSTS OF CRIME
CRIME
CRIME LITERATURE
CRIME RATES
CRIME STATISTICS
CRIME VICTIMIZATION
CRIME VICTIMS
CRIMES
CRIMINAL ACTIVITIES
CRIMINAL ACTIVITY
CRIMINAL BEHAVIOR
CRIMINALS
DATA AVAILABILITY
DETERMINANTS OF CRIME
ECONOMIC INCENTIVES
ECONOMIC INEQUALITY
EMIGRATION
GROWTH RATES
HIGH CRIME
HIGH INEQUALITY
HOMICIDE
HOUSING
ILLEGITIMATE ACTIVITIES
IMPRISONMENT
INCOME
INCOME DISTRIBUTION
INCOME INEQUALITY
INCOME LEVELS
INEQUALITY
JURISDICTION
LEVEL OF CRIME
LEVELS OF CRIME
MEASURE OF INEQUALITY
MEASUREMENT ERROR
MOTIVATION
MURDER
MURDERS
NATIONAL CRIME VICTIMIZATION
OPPORTUNITY COST
PAYOFFS
POLICE
PREVALENCE OF CRIME
PUBLIC HEALTH
PUNISHMENT
RAPE
ROBBERY
SAFETY
SOCIAL ISOLATION
UNEMPLOYMENT
VIOLENCE
VIOLENT CRIME
VIOLENT CRIMES
YOUTH CRIME STATISTICS
INEQUITY
PROPERTY OFFENSES
ECONOMIC THEORY
SOCIOLOGICAL ANALYSIS
SOCIAL DRIFT
RACIAL CONFLICTS
INTERPERSONAL BEHAVIOR
Online Access:http://documents.worldbank.org/curated/en/2002/11/2075370/crime-local-inequality-south-africa
http://hdl.handle.net/10986/19208

Internet

http://documents.worldbank.org/curated/en/2002/11/2075370/crime-local-inequality-south-africa
http://hdl.handle.net/10986/19208

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