A CRIMINALIDADE NA REGIÃO POLICIAL DA GRANDE SÃO PAULO SOB A ÓTICA DA ECONOMIA DO CRIME
DOI:
https://doi.org/10.61673/ren.2000.1943Keywords:
Economics of Crime, Crime, CriminalityAbstract
This paper approaches the question of criminality in the Police Region of the Great São Paulo (PRGSP) taking as reference the aggregate of crime (all indictable offenses) known to the police as well as the specific modality of theft and robbery of vehicles. Trying to understand a little bit more about the phenomena of criminality in that important region, this paper modeled an offer curve of criminal activities, taking as a theoretical framework the models of optimal allocation of time in the economics of crime. Next, making use of cointegration models and a mechanism of error correction, offer curves of both the aggregate of crimes and theft and robbery of vehicles were adjusted. The econometric results showed that increases of unemployment and income concentration indexes, reduction of the average earnings of labor, and a change for the worse of the efficiency of police and justice explain the evolution of criminal activities in that region, both the aggregate of crime and theft and robbery of vehicles.