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Property Crime as A Redistributive Tool: The Case of Argentina

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  • Nicolas Garcette

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In this study, we use two new data sets on crime and victimisation in Argentina. The first of these is province-level official data over the period 1992-2002. The second data set is the crime victimization survey for the city of Buenos Aires and its main surburbs, which has been conducted annually since 1996. Our main results are as follows. First, we show that the worsening of income inequality or alternatively relative poverty has significantly increased property crime in Argentina during the 1990s. Our estimates suggest that income inequality, as measured by the Gini index, explained between 10 and 25 % of the increase in property crime during the 1992-2002 period. Second, we find that property crime has become increasingly concentrated on the middle and upper class over the period 1996-2001. Overall, these results suggest that property crime has been used as a redistributive tool to compensate for the impoverishment of the poorest during the last decade and in particular the ultimate crisis in Argentina

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  • Nicolas Garcette, 2004. "Property Crime as A Redistributive Tool: The Case of Argentina," Econometric Society 2004 Latin American Meetings 197, Econometric Society.
    • Handle: RePEc:ecm:latm04:197
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    Cited by:

    1. Cerro, Ana María & Rodríguez Andrés, Antonio, 2011. "Typologies of Crime in the Argentine Provinces. A Panel Study 2000-2008," MPRA Paper 44460, University Library of Munich, Germany.
    2. Ayesha Haider & Amjad Ali, 2015. "Socio-Economic Determinants of Crimes: A Cross-Sectional Study of Punjab Districts," International Journal of Economics and Empirical Research (IJEER), The Economics and Social Development Organization (TESDO), vol. 3(11), pages 550-560, November.
    3. Cerro, Ana Maria & Michel Rivero, Andrés, 2012. "Business cycles and crime. the case of Argentina," MPRA Paper 44515, University Library of Munich, Germany.
    4. Cerro, Ana María & Ortega, Ana Carolina, 2012. "Sources of Regional Crime Persistence Argentina 1980-2008," MPRA Paper 44482, University Library of Munich, Germany.

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    Keywords

    property crime; crime victimisation; income distribution;
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    JEL classification:

    • K40 - Law and Economics - - Legal Procedure, the Legal System, and Illegal Behavior - - - General
    • K42 - Law and Economics - - Legal Procedure, the Legal System, and Illegal Behavior - - - Illegal Behavior and the Enforcement of Law

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