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Evidence of the effect of wealth observed by criminals on the risk of becoming a victim of property crimes

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  • Marcelo Justus
  • Ana Lúcia Kassouf

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The objective of this paper is to measure the effect of wealth on property victimization risk. Using data from two household victimization surveys conducted in São Paulo city and a measure of spending as a proxy for wealth observed by criminals, the conclusion was reached that wealth level is one of the determinants of victimization risk. This risk increases with this variable, but it reaches a maximum level from which it declines as wealth levels increase.

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  • Marcelo Justus & Ana Lúcia Kassouf, 2013. "Evidence of the effect of wealth observed by criminals on the risk of becoming a victim of property crimes," Economia, ANPEC - Associação Nacional dos Centros de Pós-Graduação em Economia [Brazilian Association of Graduate Programs in Economics], vol. 14(2), pages 88-101.
    • Handle: RePEc:anp:econom:v:14:y:2013:i:2:88_101
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    1. Gustavo Carvalho Moreira & Ana Lucia Kassouf & Marcelo Justus, 2018. "An estimate of the underreporting of violent crimes against property applying stochastic frontier analysis to the state of Minas Gerais, Brazil [Estimativa do subregistro de crimes violentos contra a ," Nova Economia, Economics Department, Universidade Federal de Minas Gerais (Brazil), vol. 28(3), pages 778-806, September.
    2. Marcelo Justus Dos Santos & Túlio Kahn & Henrique Kawamura, 2016. "Income And Repeat Criminal Victimization In Brazil," Anais do XLII Encontro Nacional de Economia [Proceedings of the 42nd Brazilian Economics Meeting] 208, ANPEC - Associação Nacional dos Centros de Pós-Graduação em Economia [Brazilian Association of Graduate Programs in Economics].

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    Keywords

    Violence; Victimization; Property crime;
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    JEL classification:

    • C35 - Mathematical and Quantitative Methods - - Multiple or Simultaneous Equation Models; Multiple Variables - - - Discrete Regression and Qualitative Choice Models; Discrete Regressors; Proportions
    • D69 - Microeconomics - - Welfare Economics - - - Other

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