Crime Trends and Police Expenditures

1 February 1979

journal article
research article
Published by SAGE Publications in Evaluation Quarterly

Vol. 3 (1) , 41-58
https://doi.org/10.1177/0193841x7900300103

Abstract

All previous investigations into the effect of crime trends on appropriations for police protection have employed either inappropriate cross-sectional data or unrealistic singular lag structures. The model developed here involves a more reasonable lag structure and is estimated with time series data. The expenditure for police appears as a function of the crime rate with a lag structure that begins at two years, that contains geometrically declin ing coefficients, and that has a mean lag of 3.9 years.

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