Does social capital reduce crime?

Journal of Law and Economics

Volumn 52, Issue 1, 2009, Pages 145-170

  Buonanno, Paolo ^a   Montolio, Daniel ^b   Vanin, Paolo ^c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF BERGAMO   (Italy)

^b UNIVERSITY OF BARCELONA   (Spain)

^c UNIVERSITY OF PADOVA   (Italy)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

EID: 66149134887     PISSN: 00222186     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1086/595698     Document Type: Article

References (39)

1. Anselin, Luc. 1988. Spatial Econometrics: Methods and Models. Dordrecht: Kluwer.
2. Anselin, Luc. 1988. Spatial Econometrics: Methods and Models. Dordrecht: Kluwer. Anselin, Luc, Jaqueline Cohen, David Cook, Wilpen Gorr, and George Tita. 2000. Spatial Analyses of Crime. Pp. 213-62 in Measurement and Analysis of Crime and Justice. Vol. 4 of Criminal Justice 2000, edited by David Duffee.Washington, D.C.: National Institute of Justice.
3. Banfield, Edward C. 1958. The Moral Basis of a Backward Society. New York: Free Press. Becker, Gary S. 1968. Crime and Punishment: An Economic Approach. Journal of Political Economy 76:169-217.
4. Bjørnskov, Christian. 2006. The Multiple Facets of Social Capital. European Journal of Political Economy 22:22-40.
5. Calvo' -Armengol, Antoni, Eleonora Patacchini, and Yves Zenou. 2005. Peer Effects and Social Networks in Education and Crime. Working Paper No. 645. Research Institute of Industrial Economics, Stockholm.
6. Calvo' -Armengol, Antoni, Thierry Verdier, and Yves Zenou. 2007. Strong and Weak Ties in Employment and Crime. Journal of Public Economics 91:203-33.
7. Calvo' -Armengol, Antoni, and Yves Zenou. 2004. Social Networks and Crime Decisions: The Role of Social Structure in Facilitating Delinquent Behavior. International Economic Review 45:939-58.
8. Case, Anne C., and Lawrence F. Katz. 1991. The Company You Keep: The Effects of Family and Neighborhood on Disadvantaged Youths.Working Paper No. 3705. National Bureau of Economic Research, Cambridge, Mass.
9. Chamlin, Mitchell B., and John K. Cochran. 1997. Social Altruism and Crime. Criminology 35:203-28.
10. Coleman, James. 1988. Social Capital in the Creation of Human Capital. American Journal of Sociology 94:S95-S120.
11. -. 1990. Social Capital. Pp. 300-324 in Foundations of Social Theory, edited by James Coleman. Cambridge, Mass., and London: Harvard University Press, Belknap Press.
12. Ehrlich, Isaac. 1973. Participation in Illegitimate Activities: A Theoretical and Empirical Investigation. Journal of Political Economy 81:521-65.
13. Fajnzylber, Pablo, Daniel Lederman, and Norman Loayza. 2002. Inequality and Violent Crime. Journal of Law and Economics 45:1-40.
14. Freeman, Richard B. 1991. Crime and the Employment of Disadvantaged Youths.Working Paper No. 3875. National Bureau of Economic Research, Cambridge, Mass.
15. Glaeser, Edward L., and Bruce Sacerdote. 1999. Why Is There More Crime in Cities? Journal of Political Economy 107:S225-S228.
16. Glaeser, Edward L., Bruce Sacerdote, and Jose' A. Scheinkman. 1996. Crime and Social Interactions. Quarterly Journal of Economics 111:507-48.
17. Grogger, Jeffrey T. 1998 Market Wages and Youth Crime. Journal of Labor Economics 16: 756-91.
18. Guiso, Luigi, Paola Sapienza, and Luigi Zingales. 2004. The Role of Social Capital in Financial Development. American Economic Review 94:526-56.
19. -. 2007. Long Term Persistence. Unpublished manuscript. Northwestern University, Department of Finance, Evanston, Ill.
20. Heaton, Paul. 2006. Does Religion Really Reduce Crime? Journal of Law and Economics 49:147-72.
21. ISTAT (Istituto Nazionale di Statistica). 2002. La sicurezza dei cittadini. Reati, vittime, percezione della sicurezza e sistemi di protezione-Anno 2002. http://www.istat.it/strumenti/rispondenti/indagini/ famiglia-societa/sicurezza.
22. Kling, Jeffrey R., Jens Ludwig, and Lawrence F. Katz. 2005. Neighborhood Effects on Crime for Female and Male Youth: Evidence from a Randomized Housing Voucher Experiment. Quarterly Journal of Economics 120:87-130.
23. Knack, Stephen, and Philip Keefer. 1997. Does Social Capital Have an Economic Payoff? A Cross-Country Investigation. Quarterly Journal of Economics 112:1251-88.
24. Kugler, Maurice, Thierry Verdier, and Yves Zenou. 2005. Organized Crime, Corruption and Punishment. Journal of Public Economics 89:1639-63.
25. Lederman, Daniel, Norman Loayza, and Ana MarI'a Mene'ndez. 2002. Violent Crime: Does Social Capital Matter? Economic Development and Cultural Change 50:509-39.
26. Levitt, Steven D., and Sudhir Alladi Venkatesh. 2000. An Economic Analysis of a Drug-Selling Gang's Finances. Quarterly Journal of Economics 115:755-89.
27. Liska, Allen E., and Barbara D. Warner. 1991. Functions of Crime: A Paradoxical Process. American Journal of Sociology 96:1441-63.
28. Ludwig, Jens, Greg J. Duncan, and Paul Hirschfield. 2001. Urban Poverty and Juvenile Crime: Evidence from a Randomized Housing-Mobility Experiment. Quarterly Journal of Economics 116:87-130.
29. Messner, Steven F., Eric Baumer, and Richard Rosenfeld. 2004. Dimensions of Social Capital and Rates of Criminal Homicide. American Sociological Review 69:882-903.
30. Peri, Giovanni. 2004. Socio-cultural Variables and Economic Success: Evidence from Italian Provinces 1951-1991. Topics in Macroeconomics 4, art. 12, pp. 1-36.
31. Putnam, Robert D. 1993. Making Democracy Work: Civic Traditions in Modern Italy. Princeton, N.J.: Princeton University Press.
32. -. 2000. Bowling Alone: The Collapse and Revival of American Community. New York: Simon & Schuster.
33. Rasmusen, Eric. 1996. Stigma and Self-Fulfilling Expectations of Criminality. Journal of Law and Economics 39:519-44.
34. Rosenfeld, Richard, Steven F. Messner, and Eric P. Baumer. 2001. Social Capital and Homicide. Social Forces 80:283-310.
35. Rubio, Mauricio. 1997. Perverse Social Capital-Some Evidence from Colombia. Journal of Economic Issues 31:805-16.
36. Sah, Raaj K. 1991. Social Osmosis and Patterns of Crime. Journal of Political Economy 99:1272-95.
37. Silverman, Dan. 2004. Street Crime and Street Culture. International Economic Review 45:761-86.
38. Weibull, Jörgen, and Edgar Villa. 2005. Crime, Punishment and Social Norms. SSE/EFI Working Paper 610. Stockholm School of Economics, Stockholm.
39. Zenou, Yves. 2003. The Spatial Aspects of Crime. Journal of the European Economic Association 1:459-67.