Effect of Physical Decay on Crimes:Focusing on the Aggravating Effect with Human Behaviors
Effect of Physical Decay on Crimes:Focusing on the Aggravating Effect with Human Behaviors
- 한국재정학회(구 한국재정·공공경제학회)
- 한국재정학회 학술대회 논문집
- 2017년도 추계학술대회 논문집
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2017.091 - 32 (32 pages)
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This paper investigates the nexus between physically decayed urban areas and crimes. We incorporate the existing arguments concerning the nexus in a model to offer systematic economic accounts of the direct effect of physical decay on crimes. We also explain the aggravating effect of physical decay interacting with other critical human or environmental factors known to increase crimes such as lowered self-control and increased exposure. We introduce two proxies for urban physical decay. Using a panel of South Korean 52 cities for 11 years from 2005, we find that not only is the direct effect of physical decay significant but its aggravating effect is also fairly persistent.
I. Introduction
II. Motivations: Physical Decay and Crimes
III. Nexus between Physical Decay and Crimes
IV. Data and Empirical Design
V. Empirical Results: Significant Effects of Physical Decay on Crimes
VI. Conclusion
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