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Date: April 29, 2024 Mon
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2 results foundAuthor: Medina, Carlos Title: The Effect of Adult Criminals' Spillovers On the Likelihood of Youths Becoming Criminals Summary: We use a unique data set at the individual level to estimate an empirical model explaining the probability of young individuals to become criminals as a function of the presence of adult criminals in their neighborhoods, an a complete set of control variables, including census sector fixed effects. We use the census of criminals captured in Medellin between 2000 and 2010 to construct our peer's variables, and find a strong and robust positive effect of the presence of adult criminal neighbors on the probability of becoming criminal. The result is robust across different specifications of the presence of criminals, and with respect to the probability of committing different types of crimes, even controlling for contextual and group effects. Both modeling peer effects as the sum of friends' efforts and modeling them as deviations from the means, affect the likelihood to become criminal, although with differential importance by type of crime. Details: Bogota: Banco de la Republica, 2013. 28p. Source: Internet Resource: Num. 755: Accessed October 8, 2016 at: http://www.banrep.gov.co/sites/default/files/publicaciones/archivos/be_755.pdf Year: 2013 Country: Colombia URL: http://www.banrep.gov.co/sites/default/files/publicaciones/archivos/be_755.pdf Shelf Number: 145369 Keywords: Juvenile OffendersPeer EffectsSocial Interactions |
Author: Bernasco, Wim Title: Social Interactions and Crime Revisited: An Investigation Using Individual Offender Data in Dutch Neighborhoods Summary: Using data on the age, sex, ethnicity and criminal involvement of 14.3 million residents aged 10-89 residing in 4,007 neighborhoods in the Netherlands, this article tests if an individual's criminal involvement is affected by the proportion of criminals living in their neighborhood of residence. We develop a binomial discrete choice model for criminal involvement and estimate it on individual data. We control for the endogeneity that may be related to the unobserved neighborhood characteristics and take into account possible biases that may result from sorting behavior. We find strongly significant social interaction effects and explore their implications for the presence of multiple equilibria and social multipliers. Details: Amsterdam: The Institute, 2012. 44p. Source: Internet Resource: Tinbergen Institute Discussion Paper 2012-108: Accessed May 19, 2017 at: https://papers.tinbergen.nl/12108.pdf Year: 2012 Country: Netherlands URL: https://papers.tinbergen.nl/12108.pdf Shelf Number: 145635 Keywords: Neighborhoods and Crime Social InteractionsUrban Areas |