TY  - BOOK
AU  - Avio,Kenneth
AU  - Clark,C.Scott
TI  - Property Crime in Canada: An Econometric Study
T2  - Heritage Series
SN  - 9781442656413
AV  - HV6807 .A956 1976 
PY  - 1975///
CY  - Toronto
PB  - University of Toronto Press
KW  - Offenses against property-Canada-Mathematical models
KW  - Electronic books
N1  - 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
N2  - 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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