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100	1		_aBuonanno, Paolo _eauthor
245	1	0	_aDoes social capital reduce crime? _ccreated by Paolo Buonanno, Daniel Montolio and Paolo Vanin
264	1		_aChicago : _bUniversity of Chicago Press, _c2009.
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337			_2rdamedia _aunmediated _bn
338			_2rdacarrier _avolume _bnc
440			_aJournal of Law and Economics _vVolume 52, number 1
520			_aWe investigate the effects of civic norms and associational networks on crime rates. Civic norms may attach guilt and shame to criminal behavior, thus increasing its opportunity cost. Associational networks may increase returns to noncriminal activities and raise detection probabilities, but they may also work as communication channels for criminals and may offer official cover to criminal activities. The empirical assessment of these effects poses serious problems of endogeneity, omitted variables, measurement error, and spatial correlation. Italy’s great variance in social and economic characteristics, its homogeneity in policies and institutions, and the availability of historical data on social capital in its regions allow us to minimize the first two problems. To tackle the last two problems, we use report‐rate‐adjusted crime rates and estimate a spatial lag model. We find that both civic norms and associational networks have a negative and significant effect on property crimes across Italian provinces
650			_aAutomobile theft _vBlood donation _xCrime
650			_aCrime rates _vCriminals _xLarceny
650			_aProperty crimes _vReferendums _xSocial capital
700	1		_aMontolio, Daniel _eco author
700	1		_aVanin, Paolo _eco author
856			_uhttps://doi.org/10.1086/595698
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