The Effect of Punishment Regimes on Crime Rates

Arguments

M percentage of males aged 14-24
So indicator variable for a southern state
Ed mean years of schooling
Po1 police expenditure in 1960
Po2 police expenditure in 1959
LF labour force participation rate
M.F number of males per 1000 females
Pop state population
NW number of nonwhites per 1000 people
U1 unemployment rate of urban males 14-24
U2 unemployment rate of urban males 35-39
GDP gross domestic product per head
Ineq income inequality
Prob probability of imprisonment
Time average time served in state prisons
y rate of crimes in a particular category per head of population

SUMMARY

Criminologists are interested in the effect of punishment regimes on crime rates. This has been studied using aggregate data on 47 states of the USA for 1960 given in this data frame. The variables seem to have been re-scaled to convenient numbers.

DATA DESCRIPTION

This data frame contains the following columns:

SOURCE

Ehrlich, I. (1973) Participation in illegitimate activities: a theoretical and empirical investigation. Journal of Political Economy 81, 521-565.

Vandaele, W. (1978) Participation in illegitimate activities: Ehrlich revisited. In Deterrence and Incapacitation, eds A. Blumstein, J. Cohen and D. Nagin, pp. 270-335. US National Academy of Sciences.


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