| Autor: |
Raiteri Monica |
| Jazyk: |
English<br />French<br />Italian |
| Rok vydání: |
2010 |
| Předmět: |
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| Zdroj: |
Rivista di Criminologia, Vittimologia e Sicurezza, Vol III-IV, Iss 1, Pp 285-295 (2010) |
| Druh dokumentu: |
article |
| ISSN: |
1971-033X |
| Popis: |
This essay puts forward a critical review of the relationship between the size of the police force and crime rate mediated by the precaution taken by potential victims. It has been examined by two Dutch scholars, Vollaard and Koning, from the law and economics point of view and is a comparison between data collected from police reports and data generated through victimization surveys. The matter concerns the acceptance of the synchronous model scrutinised, which is being strongly questioned underlining the limits and paradoxes that may occur. Conversely, the author outlines the advantages of assuming a recursive model, characterised by a time gap between increases in crime rate, size of the police force and precautions taken by potential victims that will be able to highlight the strength of each variable to fight back, thus contributing to the correct detection of causal links. |
| Databáze: |
Directory of Open Access Journals |
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