Governance Quality and Tourism: Moderation of Social Determinants of Crime

Abstract

Researchers have identified the impact of crime rates on tourism development, and in this study, we intend to look into the possible social causes behind those impacts. In this pursuit, we analyze the moderating role of social determinants of crime in shaping the association between tourism development and governance for 30 Asia-pacific countries over 1990-2017. In methodological terms, we have employed principal component analysis (PCA) for index building and generalized method of moments (GMM) for the estimation of long run elasticities. Using PCA, we have built separate indices for tourism development and social indicators. Results of GMM indicate that incidents of unemployment and increase in refugee population can diminish the positive impact of education on the association between tourism development and governance. The policymakers need to focus more on capacity building and job creation for internalizing the social imbalances, which might hamper the governance quality for fostering the development of tourism sector.

Policing with a public health lens – Moving towards an understanding of crime as a public health issue

“…Culture 12. Race/Racism There are a plethora of articles that analyse and discuss the Social Determinants of Crime and Health (Brosnan, 2018;da Silva, 2014;Sinha and Sengupta, 2020). Caruso shows that these are intertwined with the social determinants of crime (Caruso, 2017) Considering these similarities, we propose that policing evolves to view crime with a public health lens ensuring that any and all interventions employed by police address the impacts of the social determinants of health and crime.…”

“…There are a plethora of articles that analyse and discuss the Social Determinants of Crime and Health (Brosnan, 2018; da Silva, 2014; Sinha and Sengupta, 2020). Caruso shows that these are intertwined with the social determinants of crime (Caruso, 2017):PovertyDomestic Violence or AbuseHousingCultural and family backgroundlevel of educationCultural characteristicsMental HealthAgeGenderSocial environmentsPhysical environments…”