Can the FIFA World Cup Football (Soccer) Tournament Be Associated with an Increase in Domestic Abuse?

Kirby, Stuart; Francis, Brian; O’Flaherty, Rosalie

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“…Moreover, around 216 million viewers tuned in to watch the regular college football season with another 126 million watching the bowl games (National Football Foundation 2013). 2 A number of papers have investigated the impact sports activities on outcomes ranging from crime to disease prevalence (Stoecker, Sanders, and Barreca 2016;Kirby, Francis, and O'Flaherty 2014;Munyo and Rossi 2013;Campaniello 2013;Rees and Schnepel 2009). The mechanisms behind these effects range from frustration/happiness and consumption of alcohol due to game results to the infusion of people into the local area and crowding due to the sports event.…”

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Emotional Judges and Unlucky Juveniles

Eren

Mocan

2018

American Economic Journal: Applied Economics

103

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Employing the universe of juvenile court decisions in a US state between 1996 and 2012, we analyze the effects of emotional shocks associated with unexpected outcomes of football games played by a prominent college team in the state. We find that unexpected losses increase sentence lengths assigned by judges during the week following the game. Unexpected wins, or losses that were expected to be close contests ex ante have no impact. The effects of these emotional shocks are asymmetrically borne by black defendants. The impact of upset losses on sentence lengths is larger for defendants if their cases are handled by judges who received their bachelor's degrees from the university with which the football team is affiliated. Different falsification tests and a number of auxiliary analyses demonstrate the robustness of the findings. These results provide evidence for the impact of emotions in one domain on decisions in a completely unrelated domain among a uniformly highly educated group of individuals (judges) who make decisions after deliberation that involve high stakes (sentence lengths). They also point to the existence of a subtle and previously unnoticed capricious application of sentencing. (JEL D83, I23, J13, J15, K42, L83, Z21)

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Emotional Judges and Unlucky Juveniles

Eren

Mocan

2018

American Economic Journal: Applied Economics

103

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“…It is not possible at this stage to completely eliminate the possibility that NHL penalties might actually stimulate violent crime at the national level, through some kind of copycat or emulation effect for instance (Moser, 2004;Adubato, 2011;Card and Dahl, 2011;Kirby, Francis and O'Flaherty, 2014). We note in passing that the correlation between violent crime and NHL penalties is unlikely to be explained away by annual weather or temperature variations (Burke, Hsiang and Miguel, 2015) because NHL games are generally played in a climate-controlled environment, unlike baseball (Reifman, Larrick and Fein, 1991;Larrick et al, 2011) or American football (Craig et al, 2016) games for instance.…”

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Canadian crime rates in the penalty box

Demers

2018

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Over the 1962 to 2016 period, the Canadian violent crime rate has remained strongly correlated with National Hockey League (NHL) penalties. The Canadian property crime rate was similarly correlated with stolen base attempts in the Major League Baseball (MLB). Of course, correlation does not imply causation or prove association. It is simply presented here as an observation. Curious readers might be tempted to conduct additional research and ask questions in order to enhance the conversation, transition away from a state of confusion, clarify the situation, prevent false attribution, and possibly solve a problem that economists call identification.

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“…Finally, section 7 sums up the paper and concludes. Kirby et al (2013) show how football matches were associated with an increase in domestic violence in the United Kingdom.…”

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Measuring the Negative Externalities of a Private Leisure Activity: Hooligans and Pickpockets Around the Stadium

Montolio

Planells

2015

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Given the recent increase observed in crime and violence related to sport activities and the subsequent need for governments to devote more resources to deter this pattern, this article presents empirical evidence that could justify the possibility of taxing the negative externalities associated with the staging of football matches. Focusing specifically on theft (mainly pick pocketing) and assault (interpersonal violence or hooliganism), we seek to determine the extent to which this private leisure activity is responsible for negative crime externalities on a urban context. Drawing on data for the matches played by Football Club Barcelona (FCB) and geocoded crime data for the city of Barcelona (Spain), we assess whether there is an increase in thefts and assaults across the city of Barcelona. Then, conducting an Exploratory Spatial Data Analysis (ESDA) and a spatial regression at the census tract level, we determine the effect of football matches on crime by comparing crime rates during home and away matches. We find an increase in the number of thefts across the whole city but, especially, in those census tracts within a 700-meter radius of the stadium, indicating that despite the increase in the number of police officers on duty in the vicinity of the stadium, potential offenders are attracted to crowds where rewards are likely to be higher and the probability of being apprehended lower. These results are confirmed by the relatively low number of crimes committed during away matches in the census tracts around the stadium. A similar spatial pattern is found for assaults, although the overall impact across the city is not significant. Our results, therefore, provide evidence of a displacement effect of violent supporters (hooligans) towards the census tracts closest to the FCB stadium on football days. JEL Codes: K42, H27, R1, L83

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Can the FIFA World Cup Football (Soccer) Tournament Be Associated with an Increase in Domestic Abuse?

Cited by 36 publications

References 29 publications

Emotional Judges and Unlucky Juveniles

Emotional Judges and Unlucky Juveniles

Canadian crime rates in the penalty box

Measuring the Negative Externalities of a Private Leisure Activity: Hooligans and Pickpockets Around the Stadium

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