Frontmatter -- Contents -- Acknowledgments -- Introduction -- 1. The extent of property crime in Canada -- 2. The economic model of crime -- 3. Data -- 4. Empirical results -- 5. Range of elasticities for 'true' offence rates: an illustration -- 6. Conclusion and recommendations for future research -- Appendices -- APPENDIX A. Derivation of expected sentence lengths -- APPENDIX B. Police and judicial crime classifications -- APPENDIX C. Two-stage least squares regression estimates of the supply-of-offences equations -- APPENDIX D. Ordinary least squares estimates of the supply-of-offences equations -- APPENDIX E. Data sources -- References
Summary
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
