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Crime Reporting as a Measure of Institutional Development
This article investigates the determinants of the rate of crime reporting. The rate of crime reporting is the fraction of the total number of crimes that is actually reported to the police. The article constructs this variable by crossing data from official crime records with data from victimization...
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| Published in: | Economic development and cultural change 2004-07, Vol.52 (4), p.851-871 |
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| description | This article investigates the determinants of the rate of crime reporting. The rate of crime reporting is the fraction of the total number of crimes that is actually reported to the police. The article constructs this variable by crossing data from official crime records with data from victimization surveys. The results show that the variation of rates of crime reporting across countries is strongly related to measures of institutional stability, to police presence, and, most important, to a subjective index of corruption. This evidence uncovers the underlying forces determining the correlation between reporting rates and income per capita noticed by Scares (2004). In addition, it supports the view that subjective indexes of governance and institutional development indeed capture relevant dimensions of the performance and efficiency of the public sector. |
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| subjects | Burglary Corruption Costs Crime Crime in schools Crime Rates Crime reporting Crime victims Criminal justice Criminal records Criminal statistics Crosscultural Differences Cultural change Development studies Economic conditions Economic development Education Educational Attainment Efficiency Government corruption Income Institutions Insurance policies International Larceny Per capita Police Police Community Relations Police corruption Population Property crimes Public sector Sex crimes Studies Urban populations Urbanization Variables Victimization |
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