CRIME IN URBAN AREAS: AN EMPIRICAL INVESTIGATION

Year 2004, Volume: 3 Issue: 7, 98 - 109, 01.05.2004

Erdal Gümüş

Abstract

Crime is an illness that attacks rights of individuals. It therefore interests everybody in a society. It is argued that as urbanization increases so does crime. The purpose of this paper is to empirically investigate the determinants of crime in urban areas by using cross-sectional data. The results we get indicate that per capita income, income inequality, population, and presence of black population are all important determinants of urban crime. Our results also confirm previous empirical studies on the subject.

Keywords

Urban crime, Economics of crime, Property crime

CRIME IN URBAN AREAS: AN EMPIRICAL INVESTIGATION

Abstract

Keywords

şehir suçu, Suç ekonomisi, Mülkiyet suçu