Crime in Europe: Causes and Consequences

✍ Scribed by Professor Dr. Horst Entorf, Dipl.-Volksw. Hannes Spengler (auth.)

• Publisher: Springer-Verlag Berlin Heidelberg
• Year: 2002
• Tongue: English
• Leaves: 240
• Edition: 1
• Category: Library

✦ Synopsis

The more generous social welfare system in Europe is one of the most important differences between the European and the US society. Defenders of the European welfare state argue that it improves social cohesion and prevents crime. On the other hand, the US economy is performing quite well such that crime rates might come down due to better legal income opportunities. This book takes this trade-off as a point of departure and contributes to a better interdisciplinary understanding of the interactions between crime, economic performance and social exclusion. It evaluates the existing economic and criminological research and provides innovative empirical investigations on the basis of international panel data sets from different levels of regional aggregation. Among other aspects, results clearly reveal the crime reducing potential of intact families and the link beween crime and labour market. A special focus is on estimating the consequences of crime, a topic rarely analysed in literature.

✦ Table of Contents

Front Matter....Pages I-IX
Introduction....Pages 1-4
Descriptive Evidence on Magnitude and Development of Crime in Europe....Pages 5-28
Socio-economic Causes, Interactions and Consequences of Crime....Pages 29-96
Development of a Methodological Framework for the Empirical Analysis of Crime....Pages 97-111
Criminometric Results on Causes and Consequences of Crime in Europe....Pages 113-169
Conclusions....Pages 171-177
Back Matter....Pages 179-235

✦ Subjects

Social Policy; Criminology & Criminal Justice; Criminal Law; Sociology, general; Econometrics