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Crime and social sanction**We are grateful to Danilo Cavapozzi, two anonymous referees, participants to seminars in Padua, Venice, Bologna, DIW in Berlin and to the ESPE and NASM conferences. We gratefully acknowledge financial support from the University of Padua, research grant CPDA071899. Usual disclaimers apply

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  • Buonanno, Paolo
  • Pasini, Giacomo
  • Vanin, Paolo

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In this paper we provide evidence that social sanctions represent a very strong deterrent of property crime. We present a formal model relating crime and social sanction to social interaction density. Consistently with our theoretical framework and the literature on network closure and social interactions, we resort to demographic and geomorphological information to develop an exogenous and reliable measure for the density of social interactions based on town dimension and isolation. We estimate a spatial panel model by means of a GMM procedure and we find that areas with denser social interactions display significantly and substantially lower rates of property crime.

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Handle: RePEc:eee:paresc:v:91:y:2012:i:1:p:193-219
DOI: 10.1111/j.1435-5957.2010.00349.x
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JEL classification:

  • A14 - General Economics and Teaching - - General Economics - - - Sociology of Economics
  • K42 - Law and Economics - - Legal Procedure, the Legal System, and Illegal Behavior - - - Illegal Behavior and the Enforcement of Law
  • Z13 - Other Special Topics - - Cultural Economics - - - Economic Sociology; Economic Anthropology; Language; Social and Economic Stratification

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