ASPECTS OF CRIMINALITY IN CITIES OF PAULISTA

Abstract

The present work has that goal to verify empirically the economic and social determinants of crime in the cities of São Paulo State. Due to wide range of crime-related components, this work to estimate an econometric model able to show what impact economic and social variables have on the types of crimes (murders, thefts and robberies) that are present in the cities of São Paulo. Using cross-sectional data for all cities in São Paulo during the year of 2010, the study presents has as the crime rates react with the explication variable in the degree of urbanization, participation of young male population, Gini index, income per capita, illiteracy rate, spent on public safety and growth rate of crimes in the previous year to 2010. The results show an important inertial component in the crime rate. To the rate of thefts only spent on public safety is connected with the theft of the cities. For the murder rate model, variables such as per capita income and unemployment were those that had a negative relationship with their dependent.

DOI: https://doi.org/10.56238/sevened2025.036-037