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Law Property

Property Crime in Canada

An Econometric Study

by (author) Kenneth Avio & C. Scott Clark

Publisher
University of Toronto Press
Initial publish date
Dec 1976
Category
Property, Econometrics, Criminal Procedure, General
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    ISBN
    9781442633117
    Publish Date
    Dec 1976
    List Price
    $16.95

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This is the first attempt, using Canadian data and econometric techniques, to study property crime as rational economic behaviour. Supply-of-offences functions for five types of property crime are specified and estimated using provincial data for 1970-2. Both the probability of apprehension and the probability of conviction are shown to have a substantial negative effect upon most kinds of property crime, with the conviction rate exhibiting the stronger influence. The generally significant inverse relationship between expected sentence length and the crime rate found by other researchers does not appear for the crimes investigated here. The results also indicate that estimating supply-of-offence functions over such aggregate categories as 'property crime' can lead to unjustified generalizations about particular types of crime.

About the authors

Kenneth Avio is a professor emeritus of the Department of Economics at the University of Victoria.

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C. Scott Clark is an adjunct research professor in the Department of Economics at Carleton University.

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