Um estudo sobre a vitimização para a cidade de São Paulo
In: Revista de economia política: Brazilian journal of political economy, Band 31, Heft 1, S. 160-180
ISSN: 1809-4538
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In: Revista de economia política: Brazilian journal of political economy, Band 31, Heft 1, S. 160-180
ISSN: 1809-4538
In: Brazilian journal of political economy: Revista de economia política, Band 31, Heft 1/121, S. 160-173
ISSN: 0101-3157
A study about the victimization in the city of São Paulo. This paper applies the crime economics theory to Brazilian data. Following Becker (1968), Hinderlang et al. (1978) and Cohen et. al. (1981), the authors tested the microeconomic factors that influence crime and victimization. For this end, the two waves of research of victimization of the Instituto Futuro Brasil, 2003 and 2008, were used in an efford to identify the determinants of victimization and police notification, using probit model. The main results suggest the factors which impact significantly the probability of victimization are the demographic characteristics, economic conditions and personal habits. The models of "life style" and "opportunity" seem to have a good performance. (Rev Econ Polit/ GIGA)
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