Terror and the Costs of Crime

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dc.contributor German Institute for Economic Research (DIW Berlin) en
dc.contributor.author Gould, Erich D.
dc.contributor.author Stecklov, Guy
dc.date.accessioned 2016-02-17T13:40:53Z
dc.date.available 2016-02-17T13:40:53Z
dc.date.issued 2009
dc.identifier.issn 1868-0488 en
dc.identifier.other 490200656 de_DE
dc.identifier.uri http://hdl.handle.net/10900/68419
dc.identifier.uri http://nbn-resolving.de/urn:nbn:de:bsz:21-dspace-684191 de_DE
dc.identifier.uri http://dx.doi.org/10.15496/publikation-9838
dc.description.abstract This paper argues that terrorism, beyond its immediate impact on innocent victims, also raises the costs of crime, and therefore, imposes a negative externality on potential criminals. Terrorism raises the costs of crime through two channels: (i) by increasing the presence and activity of the police force, and (ii) causing more people to stay at home rather than going out for leisure activities. Our analysis exploits a panel of 120 fatal terror attacks and all reported crimes for 17 districts throughout Israel between 2000 and 2005. After controlling for the fixed-effect of each district and for district-specific time trends, we show that terror attacks reduce property crimes such as burglary, auto-theft, and thefts-from-cars. Terror also reduces assaults and aggravated assaults which occur in private homes, but increases incidents of trespassing and "disrupting the police." Taken as a whole, the results are consistent with a stronger deterrence effect produced by an increased police presence after a terror attack. A higher level of policing is likely to catch more people trespassing, and at the same time, reduce the number of property crimes. The decline in crimes committed in private houses is likely an indication that the tendency for individuals to stay home after a terror attack further increases the costs of crime. en
dc.language.iso en de_DE
dc.publisher Universität Tübingen de_DE
dc.subject.classification Kriminalität , Polizei , Terrorismus de_DE
dc.subject.ddc 360 de_DE
dc.title Terror and the Costs of Crime en
dc.type Book de_DE
utue.publikation.fachbereich Kriminologie de_DE
utue.publikation.fakultaet Kriminologisches Repository de_DE
utue.publikation.fakultaet Kriminologisches Repository de_DE
utue.opus.portal kdoku de_DE
utue.publikation.source Economics of Security Working Paper ; (2009) 15 en

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