Property crime in Canada : an econometric study / Kenneth L. Avio and C. Scott Clark.
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TextSeries: Ontario Economic Council research studies ; 2.Publication details: Toronto ; Buffalo : Published for the Ontario Economic Council by University of Toronto Press, ©1976.Description: 1 online resource (vi, 86 pages)Content type: - text
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- 9781442656413
- 1442656417
- 9781442633117
- 1442633115
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- HV6807 .A93 1976eb
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Includes bibliographical references (pages 85-86).
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Frontmatter -- 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 -- APPENDIX A. Derivation of expected sentence lengths -- APPENDIX B. Police and judicial crime classifications -- APPENDIX C. Two-stage least squares regression estimates of the supply-of-offences equations -- APPENDIX D. Ordinary least squares estimates of the supply-of-offences equations -- APPENDIX E. Data sources -- References
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.
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