Crime and Uneymployment: the Case of the Czech Republic

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Result language

angličtina

Original language name

Crime and Uneymployment: the Case of the Czech Republic

Original language description

The connection between economics and crime was first pointed out by Gary Becker, a representative of the new institutional economics, in the 1960s. Since then, various studies have examined how the economy and economic factors, including unemployment, affect crime. It is obvious that this issue is relatively old, but still relevant. There are two theories explaining the relationship between unemployment and crime, the motivation theory and the opportunity theory. According to motivation theory, this relationship is positive, while according to opportunity theory, this relationship is negative. However, the studies to date have not yet reached a unified conclusion. The article aims to verify the relationship between unemployment and crime in the Czech Republic using three hy-potheses. The assumption that an increase in unemployment will increase crime and that this dependence will be stronger in long-term unemployment is verified. The assumption that increasing spending on unemployment benefits will lead to a reduction in crime is also verified. The hypotheses are verified using regression analysis on data from the Czech Republic from the period 1993-2000 for various types of crime, namely general, violent, property and economic crime. Since it is in the interest of every society to minimize crime, it is desirable to know whether the use of effective employment policy instruments leading to the reduction of unemployment can help this.

Czech name

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Czech description

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Type

J_ost - Miscellaneous article in a specialist periodical

CEP classification

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OECD FORD branch

50201 - Economic Theory

Project

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Continuities

I - Institucionalni podpora na dlouhodoby koncepcni rozvoj vyzkumne organizace

Publication year

2022

Confidentiality

S - Úplné a pravdivé údaje o projektu nepodléhají ochraně podle zvláštních právních předpisů

Name of the periodical

Ekonomická revue

ISSN

1212-3951

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Volume of the periodical

25

Issue of the periodical within the volume

3

Country of publishing house

CZ - CZECH REPUBLIC

Number of pages

11

Pages from-to

76-85

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