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100	1		_aFishback, Price V. _eauthor
245	1	0	_aStriking at the Roots of Crime: _bthe Impact of Welfare Spending on Crime during the Great Depression _ccreated by Price V. Fishback, Ryan S. Johnson and Shawn Kantor
264	1		_aChicago: _bUniversity of Chicago Press, _c2010.
336			_2rdacontent _atext _btxt
337			_2rdamedia _aunmediated _bn
338			_2rdacarrier _avolume _bnc
440			_aJournal of Law and Economics _vVolume 53, number 4
520	3		_aDuring the Great Depression contemporaries worried that people hit by hard times would resort to crime. President Franklin Roosevelt argued that the massive government relief efforts “struck at the roots of crime” by providing subsistence income to needy families. After constructing a panel data set for 81 large American cities for the years 1930-40, we estimate the effect of relief spending by all levels of government on crime rates. The analysis suggests that a 10 percent increase in relief spending during the 1930s reduced property crime by roughly 1.5 percent. By limiting the amount of relief recipients’ free time, work relief may have been more effective than direct relief in reducing crime. More generally, our results indicate that social insurance, which tends to be understudied in economic analyses of crime, should be more explicitly and more carefully incorporated into the analysis of temporal and spatial variations in criminal activity
650			_aCities _vCoefficients _xCrime patterns
700			_aJohnson, Ryan S. _eco author
856			_uhttps://doi.org/10.1086/655778
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