Do governments lead or lag in fighting crime?

Narayan, Paresh Kumar and Smyth, Russell 2006, Do governments lead or lag in fighting crime?, Applied economics letters, vol. 13, no. 1, pp. 11-15.

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Title	Do governments lead or lag in fighting crime?
Author(s)	Narayan, Paresh Kumar Smyth, Russell
Journal name	Applied economics letters
Volume number	13
Issue number	1
Start page	11
End page	15
Publisher	Routledge
Place of publication	London, England
Publication date	2006-01
ISSN	1350-4851 1466-4291 0003-6846 0960-3107
Keyword(s)	police criminal justice, Administration of crime homicide criminal law offenses against the person assault & battery
Summary	We examine the Granger causal relationship between police strength and a variety of different types of crime for South Australia. We find that with the exception of assault and homicide in the long run, the crime rate and police strength are neutral.
Language	eng
Field of Research	140219 Welfare Economics
HERDC Research category	C1.1 Refereed article in a scholarly journal
Copyright notice	©2006, Taylor & Francis
Persistent URL	http://hdl.handle.net/10536/DRO/DU:30018596

Document type:	Journal Article
Collection:	School of Accounting, Economics and Finance

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