Um estudo sobre a vitimização para a cidade de São Paulo

Abstract

A study about the victimization in the city of São Paulo. This paper applies the crime economics theory to Brazilian data. Following Becker (1968), Hinderlang et al. (1978) and Cohen et al. (1981), we tested the microeconomic factors that influence crime and victimization. For this end, the two waves of research of victimization of the Instituto Futuro Brasil, 2003 and 2008, were used in an effort to identify the determinants of victimization and police notification, using probit model. The main results suggest the factors which impact significantly the probability of victimization are the demographic characteristics, economic conditions and personal habits. The models of "life style" and "opportunity" seem to have good performance.Keywords: economics of crime; victimization; determinants of criminality; binary-choice models (probit); under-reporting.JEL Classification: C35; D69.O entendimento do crime -o que leva um agente a cometê-lo e o que torna uma pessoa propensa a ser vítima -é essencial para que melhores prá-ticas de combate e prevenção sejam implementadas, para que haja redução das ocorrências de criminalidade e, consequentemente, para aumentar o bem-estar dos indivíduos.Para se ter uma dimensão do problema: um estudo realizado pelo Banco Interamericano de Desenvolvimento (BID) concluiu que a principal barreira de

Vitimização por crime na infância e adolescência segundo registros oficiais: coorte de nascimentos de Pelotas, Rio Grande do Sul, Brasil

“…According to the British Crime Survey 19, only 39% of crimes are reported to law enforcement agencies in the United Kingdom. Instituto Futuro Brasil 20 revealed 68% underreporting in the city of São Paulo, consistent with the findings from the British survey. The main reasons identified by international studies for victims not to report crimes 19 have to do with the lack of severity of some crimes and a lack of trust in the police.…”

The role of social capital in the victimization risk against property: evidence from Brazil*

“…This is unsurprising since younger individuals tend to be exposed in environments that have a higher risk of victimization. This age relationship was also verified in Madalozzo and Furtado (2011) for robbery, auto theft, and physical aggression. The same relationship between age and both robberies and home burglaries was found by Justus and Kassouf (2013).…”

“…Social capital also affects victim behavior. Madalozzo and Furtado (2011) point out that analyzing the relationship between social capital and victim behavior is complex, since there is no consolidating theory capable of substantiating the behavior of the victim to provide a basis for empirical analysis. A theory that offers a basis for empirical analysis of the relationship between social capital and victim behavior was proposed by Cohen, Kluegel and Land (1981) which composes what are known as life-style theoretical models, which are referred to in this paper as the CKL model 1 .…”

“…The selection of explanatory variables (Table 1) was conditioned by the LLM and CKL models presented in the previous section and, above all, in previous empirical studies, more specifically those conducted by Scorzafave et al (2011), Gomes and Paz, (2008), Madalozzo and Furtado (2011), Justus and Kassouf (2013).…”

Safety in the global south: Criminal victimization in Brazilian rural areas

“…This extensive literature includes studies by Sparks (1981), Miethe and McDowall (1993), Levitt (1999) and Gaviria and Pag es (2002), all presenting relevant empirical results. In Brazil, Carneiro (2000), Beato et al (2004), Gomes and Paz (2008), Carvalho and Lavor (2008), Madalozzo and Furtado (2011), and Justus and Kassouf (2013) also analyzed this issue. However, none of them performed empirical modeling using only individual data collected in rural areas.…”