Homicide in black and white

O’Flaherty, Brendan; Sethi, Rajiv

doi:10.1016/j.jue.2010.06.001

Cited by 46 publications

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“…In their model, penalties for minor crime will never decrease severe crime, but may increase it. O’Flaherty and Sethi (2010) show that a reputation for toughness may not be a valuable asset in all circumstances. They argue that blacks are more likely to be murdered because they are perceived as more violent.…”

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confidence: 98%

Status‐Seeking in Criminal Subcultures and the Double Dividend of Zero‐Tolerance

Dur

Weele

2013

J Public Economic Theory

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This paper offers a new argument for why a more aggressive enforcement of minor offenses (zero-tolerance) may yield a double dividend in that it reduces both minor offenses and more severe crime. We develop a model of criminal subcultures in which people gain social status among their peers for being "tough" by committing criminal acts. As zero-tolerance keeps relatively "gutless" people from committing a minor offense, the signaling value of that action increases, which makes it attractive for some people who would otherwise commit more severe crime. If social status is sufficiently important in criminal subcultures, zerotolerance reduces crime across the board.

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Section: Discussionmentioning

confidence: 98%

Status‐Seeking in Criminal Subcultures and the Double Dividend of Zero‐Tolerance

Dur

Weele

2013

J Public Economic Theory

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“…Geographers indeed found differences in the spatial distribution of crime (Brown, 1982;Freeman, Grogger, & Sonstelie, 1996;Hudson, 2014;Pyle, Hanten, Pearson, Doyle, & Kwofie, 1974;Willis, 1983). For instance, crime seems to be typically higher in urban areas (Hoch, 1973;Myers, 1982), in neighborhoods with high population density (Hoch, 1973) or with more young, male or black population (Donohue & Levitt, 2001;Levitt & Venkatesh, 2001;O'Flaherty & Sethi, 2010).…”

Section: Demographic Factorsmentioning

confidence: 99%

What determines crime rates? An empirical test of integrated economic and sociological theories of criminal behavior

Engelen

Lander

Essen

2016

The Social Science Journal

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Research on crime has by no means reached a definitive conclusion on which factors are related to crime rates. We contribute to the crime literature by providing an integrated empirical model of economic and sociological theories of criminal behavior and by using a very comprehensive set of economic, social as well as demographic explanatory variables. We use panel data techniques to estimate this integrated crime model for property and violent crime using the entire population of all 100 counties in North Carolina for the years 2001-2005. Both fields contribute to the explanatory power of the integrated model. Our results support the economic explanation of crime with respect to the deterrent effect of the probabilities of arrest and imprisonment concerns, as well as the time allocation model of criminal activities. In contrast, the integrated model seems to reject the impact of the severity of punishment on crime levels. With respect to the sociological theories of crime, we find most support for the social disorganization theory and for the routine activity theory. Finally, we find differences between property and violent crimes, mostly explained by the sociological models.

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“…In that case, street vice imposes a larger moral external cost than clandestine sales. 6 The disproportionate representation of Blacks among homicide offenders and victims is itself related to disproportionate involvement in street vice; see O'Flaherty and Sethi (2009) and Section 10 below. Disproportionate Black involvement in robbery is based on entirely different mechanisms, which we have discussed elsewhere (O'Flaherty and Sethi, 2008).…”

Section: Arrest and Conviction Recordsmentioning

confidence: 99%