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

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