TITLE:
Property Crime and Socioeconomic Factors
AUTHORS:
Shijie Yin
KEYWORDS:
Property Crime, Unemployment Rate, Median Household Income, Unemployment Insurance Policy, Educational Condition, Cross-Sectional Data
JOURNAL NAME:
Open Journal of Social Sciences,
Vol.5 No.9,
September
25,
2017
ABSTRACT: This paper analyzes the relationship between property crime and socioeconomic
factors by choosing section data of American states from 2011 to 2015.
The research shows that: 1) The factors—unemployment rate, median household
income and education level do not strong affect the change of property
crime; the covered people of unemployment insurance policy and law enforcement
are significant for variance to property crime. 2) Economic determinants
should be included in the model of criminal activity, but the economic
model does not explain the overall change in crime rates.