Deeply rooted in the social disorganization theory, this article aims at studying causal impact of local inequality, a main community structural factor, on individuals’ fear crime. Combining multiple datasets and focusing Mexican case, study has several goals. First, we construct an innovative index crime composed three dimensions: emotion, cognition behavior. Second, build measures income educ...

The impact of crime on general welfare is profound. Those most directly impacted are the victims of crime. By one estimate, the combination of direct monetary losses and the costs of pain and suffering among crime victims in the United States amounts to 0.5–0.7 percent of GDP (Freeman 1996). Beyond these direct costs are substantial indirect costs associated with reducing the threat of crime. I...

In recent years cities and localities across the country have expanded the use of youth curfews to address growing public concern about juvenile crime and violence. By reducing the number of youths on the street during certain hours, curfews are assumed to lesson the number of circumstances in which youth crime can occur. It is also assumed that curfews reduce youth crime by deterring youths fr...