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Property Crime in Canada : An Econometric Study.

By: Contributor(s): Material type: TextTextSeries: Heritage SeriesPublisher: Toronto : University of Toronto Press, 1975Copyright date: ©1976Edition: 1st edDescription: 1 online resource (95 pages)Content type:
  • text
Media type:
  • computer
Carrier type:
  • online resource
ISBN:
  • 9781442656413
Subject(s): Genre/Form: Additional physical formats: Print version:: Property Crime in CanadaLOC classification:
  • HV6807 .A956 1976
Online resources:
Contents:
Cover -- 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 -- A: Derivation of expected sentence lengths -- B: Police and judicial crime classifications -- C: Two-stage least squares regression estimates of the supply-of-offences equations -- D: Ordinary least squares estimates of the supply-of-offences equations -- E: Data sources -- REFERENCES.
Summary: 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.
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Cover -- 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 -- A: Derivation of expected sentence lengths -- B: Police and judicial crime classifications -- C: Two-stage least squares regression estimates of the supply-of-offences equations -- D: Ordinary least squares estimates of the supply-of-offences equations -- E: Data sources -- REFERENCES.

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.

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