Author/Authors :
YILDIZ, Rıfat Erciyes Üniversitesi - İktisadi ve İdari Bilimler Fakültesi (İİBF) - İktisat Bölümü, Turkey , ÖCAL, Oğuz Kayseri Emniyet Müdürlüğü, Turkey , YILDIRIM, Ertuğrul Erciyes Üniversitesi - İktisadi ve İdari Birimler Fakültesi (İİBF) - İktisat Bölümü, Turkey
Title Of Article :
THE SOCIO-ECONOMIC DETERMINANTS OF CRIME: A PANEL DATA ANALYSIS
Abstract :
In literature, there is no study that analyzing crime in the case of Kayseri. In this study the factors may affect number of crime in Kayseri is empirically investigated in the context of models of crime economics. The aim of this study is to make suggestions about policy against crime. With this aim firstly theoretical and empirical works related with the determinants of crime is examined. In the section of empirical analysis, for the term 2002-2008, the relationship between city center crime numbers in 11 crime types and socio-economic variables of suspects, has been analyzed through panel data regression model. As a result, it has determined that unemployment and population effect crime positively; the crime numbers are negatively related with the income and the police numbers. Furthermore the number of crime increases as the number of high school graduates increases.
NaturalLanguageKeyword :
Crime , Economic Models of Crime , Determinants of Crime
JournalTitle :
Erciyes University Journal Of Economics and Administrative Sciences
