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Title: Differently Rational Essays on Criminal Behavior
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Williams, Geoffrey |
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Differently Rational Essays on Criminal Behavior Ph.D. Dissertation, Rutgers The State University of New Jersey-New Brunswick, 2012 Cohort(s): NLSY97 Publisher: ProQuest Dissertations & Theses (PQDT) Keyword(s): Adolescent Behavior; Cost-Benefit Studies; Crime; Modeling Permission to reprint the abstract has not been received from the publisher. The second chapter proposes a simple threshold model of theft, and develops a number of structural estimators based on this model. It then tests the model against data from the National Longitudinal Study of Youth, 1997 Cohort. The evidence suggests that the key determinant of theft behavior is the costs of theft to the thief, and in particular the thief's perception of future costs. There does not seem to be significant variation in the benefits of theft; that is, there is no sign that some individuals are more capable of theft than others. The data also shows that theft behavior is usually very short-lived, with the vast majority of thieves showing activity for less than one year in adolescence. |
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Williams, Geoffrey. Differently Rational Essays on Criminal Behavior. Ph.D. Dissertation, Rutgers The State University of New Jersey-New Brunswick, 2012. |