| Description |
1 online resource (95 pages) |
| Series |
Heritage |
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Heritage.
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| Contents |
Cover -- Contents -- ACKNOWLEDGMENTS -- Introduction -- 1 The extent of property crime in Canada -- 2 The economic model of crime -- 3 Data -- 4 Empirical results -- 5 Range of elasticities for 'true' offence rates: an illustration -- 6 Conclusion and recommendations for future research -- APPENDICES -- A: Derivation of expected sentence lengths -- B: Police and judicial crime classifications -- C: Two-stage least squares regression estimates of the supply-of-offences equations -- D: Ordinary least squares estimates of the supply-of-offences equations -- E: Data sources -- REFERENCES |
| Summary |
This is the first attempt, using Canadian data and econometric techniques, to study property crime as rational economic behaviour. Supply-of-offences functions for five types of property crime are specified and estimated using provincial data for 1970-2 |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references |
| Notes |
Print version record |
| Subject |
Offenses against property -- Canada -- Mathematical models
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Offenses against property -- Mathematical models.
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Canada.
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| Form |
Electronic book
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| Author |
Clark, C. Scott
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| ISBN |
9781442656413 |
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1442656417 |
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0802033342 |
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9780802033345 |
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