The economic determinants of crime: Santiago de Chile 2001-2009

This paper analyses crime in Santiago de Chile over the last decade. Firstly, we perform a descriptive analysis and then we present an empirical analysis in which murders and robberies are explained taking into account several socioeconomic variables. Murders are mainly committed by men in the most...

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Autor principal: GONZÁLEZ ESTEBAN, Ángel Luis; Universidad de Salamanca
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Lenguaje:Español
Publicado: Universidad de Salamanca 2016
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Acceso en línea:http://revistas.usal.es/index.php/1130-2887/article/view/alh201673143179
http://biblioteca.clacso.edu.ar/gsdl/cgi-bin/library.cgi?a=d&c=es/es-011&d=article15441oai
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Sumario:This paper analyses crime in Santiago de Chile over the last decade. Firstly, we perform a descriptive analysis and then we present an empirical analysis in which murders and robberies are explained taking into account several socioeconomic variables. Murders are mainly committed by men in the most densely populated municipalities and in those with more people without basic education completed. On the contrary, the vast majority of robberies occur in rich municipalities, where the increased police presence is not enough to compensate the effect of structural variables such as income inequality.