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Crime and Social Sanction

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Paolo Buonanno () (University of Bergamo)
Giacomo Pasini () (University of Utrecht)
Paolo Vanin () (University of Padova)

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Social sanctions may be a strong deterrent of crime. This paper presents a formal model that relates crime and social sanction to social interaction density. We empirically test the theoretical predictions using a provincial level panel dataset on di erent crimes in Italy between 1996 and 2003. We exploit detailed demographic and geo-morphological information to develop exogenous measures of social interaction density. We estimate a spatial panel model by means of a GMM procedure and we nd that provinces with denser social interactions display significantly and substantially lower rates of property crime, but not of violent crime.

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Paper provided by Dipartimento di Scienze Economiche "Marco Fanno" in its series "Marco Fanno" Working Papers with number 0071.

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Keywords: Crime Spatial Panel Social Interaction Social Sanction

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