Crime and social interactions: a developing country case study

Carneiro, Francisco; Loureiro, Paulo R. A.; Sachsida, Adolfo

doi:10.1016/j.socec.2004.09.015

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“…Empirical results confirm that the criminal behavior has a strong relationship with social interactions (e.g. [22][23][24]). This idea explains not only the relation of habit formation to criminal activity but also its relation to criminal behavior.…”

Section: Crime Habit and Capital Stockmentioning

confidence: 58%

Crime and Punishment with Habit Formation

Teles

Andrade

2011

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Moral concepts affect crime supply. This idea is modelled assuming that illegal activities is habit forming. We introduce habits in an intertemporal general equilibrium framework to illegal activities and compare its outcomes with a model without habit formation. The findings are that habit and crime presents a non linear relationship that hinges upon the level of capital and habit formation. It is possible to show that while the effect of habit on crime is negative for low levels o habit formation it becomes positive as habits goes up. Secondly habit reduces the marginal effect of illegal activities return on crime. Finally, the effect of habit on crime depends positively on the amount of capital. This could explain the relationship between size of cities and illegal activity.

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Section: Crime Habit and Capital Stockmentioning

confidence: 58%

Crime and Punishment with Habit Formation

Teles

Andrade

2011

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“…From this negative aspect, it is clear that criminal behavior is not hereditary and that a person who has not been previously trained in crime cannot become a criminal. Criminal behavior is developed through interaction and mingling with others through the process of communication, whatever its method: verbal, language, or gestural (Fournier et al, 2007;Carneiro, 2005).…”

Section: Differential Association Theory and Juvenile Delinquencymentioning

confidence: 99%

The Effect of the Social Environment on Juvenile Delinquency in Emirati Society: A Field Study

Alqwatahiay

2024

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The surrounding social environment in which individuals grow up contributes significantly to the formation of their behavior and relationships with others, so individuals learn different types of behavior through the socialization institutions available in the surrounding social environment. This study examines the impact of the social environment on juvenile delinquency. Using the descriptive approach, questionnaire questions were distributed to a sample of 45 cases. The results showed a strong negative relationship between family upbringing and juvenile delinquency, as the means of individuals’ answers to all items ranged from 3 to 4.30. Family neglect also causes children to resort to bad friends and learn deviance. Additionally, series and films in the media significantly lead to learning about violence and crime.

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“…Também utilizando micro dados da população carcerária e trabalhando com o modelo Probit, Carneiro et al (2005) encontram o ambiente social no qual o indivíduo interage como condicionante relevante para o comportamento do agressor em alguns tipos de crime. A educação apresentou-se como um fator de redução na probabilidade de se cometer homicídio, no entanto, apresentou como fator de incremento para o caso o tráfico de drogas.…”

Section: Estudos Sobre a Segurança Pública Educação 17 Criminalidadunclassified

Educação, Segurança Pública E Violência Nos Municípios Brasileiros: Uma Análise De Painel Dinâmico De Dados.

Duenhas¹,

Gonçalves²,

Júnior³

2014

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RESUMOO aumento da violência tem motivado pesquisas buscando soluções alternativas para amenizar o problema. Os trabalhos empíricos revelam que alguns aspectos econômicos, como a concentração de renda, e aspectos sociais, como um ambiente familiar desestruturado, conseguem explicar a ocorrência do crime e da violência. No entanto, não há convergência a respeito das variáveis de educação e segurança pública no combate a esse mal. Alguns trabalhos mostram uma relação direta do nível educacional com o crime e inversa com a violência. Quanto ao impacto da segurança pública, os resultados são contraditórios. Essa discordância de resultados é decorrente da endogenidade entre gastos em segurança pública e taxas de crime e violência. O presente trabalho contorna o problema da endogenidade através de um Painel Dinâmico com dados de 2000-2005 para os 5506 municípios brasileiros e encontra um impacto negativo dos gastos em segurança pública e educação sobre os níveis de violência, ou seja, quanto maior os gastos nessas rubricas, menor o número de homicídios no município. Palavras-chaves: Educação. Segurança pública. Violência. Municípios. Painel de dados. ABSTRACTThe increasing of violence has driven research seeking alternative solutions to alleviate this problem. Empirical studies reveal that some economic aspects, such as income concentration, and social aspects, as bad family environment, can explain crime and violence occurrence. However, there is no convergence about education and public security variables in crime and violence prevention. Some studies show a direct relationship between the education level and crime, and a reverse relationship with violence. The results of public security impacts are contradictory. This discrepancy of results is due to the endogeneity between spending on public security and rates of crime and violence. The present study handles the problem of endogeneity through a dynamic panel with data from 2000-2005 for the 5506 Brazilian cities and found a negative 1 Doutor em Desenvolvimento Econômico pela Universidade Federal do Paraná. Pesquisador na Federação das Indústrias do Paraná.

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Crime and social interactions: a developing country case study

Cited by 13 publications

References 19 publications

Crime and Punishment with Habit Formation

Crime and Punishment with Habit Formation

The Effect of the Social Environment on Juvenile Delinquency in Emirati Society: A Field Study

Educação, Segurança Pública E Violência Nos Municípios Brasileiros: Uma Análise De Painel Dinâmico De Dados.

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