Pudney, S and Deadman, D and Pyle, D (2000) 'The Relationship Between Crime, Punishment and Economic Conditions: is reliable inference possible when crimes are under-recorded?' Journal of the Royal Statistical Society Series A (Statistics in Society), 163 (1). pp. 81-97. ISSN 0964-1998

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Abstract

We investigate the estimation of dynamic models of criminal activity, when there is significant under-recording of crime. We give a theoretical analysis and use simulation techniques to investigate the resulting biases in conventional regression estimates. We find the biases to be of little practical significance. We develop and apply a new simulated maximum likelihood procedure that estimates simultaneously the measurement error and crime processes, using extraneous survey data. This also confirms that measurement error biases are small. Our estimation results for data from England and Wales imply a significant response of crime to both the economic and the enforcement environment.

Item Type:	Article
Subjects:	H Social Sciences > H Social Sciences (General)
Divisions:	Faculty of Social Sciences Faculty of Social Sciences > Institute for Social and Economic Research
SWORD Depositor:	Elements
Depositing User:	Elements
Date Deposited:	03 Feb 2014 14:15
Last Modified:	06 Jan 2022 13:29
URI:	http://repository.essex.ac.uk/id/eprint/8736

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