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- Title
Interjurisdictional Spillover of Crime and Police Expenditure.
- Authors
Hakim, Simon; Ovadia, Arie; Sagi, Eli; Weinblatt, J.
- Abstract
The issue of intercommunital externalities and spillover of public goods has been extensively analyzed in economic literature, as of May 1979. This article formalizes a case of inter- jurisdictional spillover of both crime and police expenditures in suburban communities, using a general equilibrium model. In the first section of the article, the authors develop a theoretical model, which is then tested empirically in the second part. The empirical model utilizes 1970 data on crime and police expenditure of 94 suburban communities in the south New Jersey area in the vicinity of Camden and Philadelphia. This article introduces the effect on the level of one community's police expenditure which results from a change in neighboring communities' level of expenditure, that is, as police expenditure in one municipality increases, crime flows to the adjacent municipality, which in turn increases its police expenditure. In addition to the analysis of the aggregate level of crimes, this article tests a general equilibrium type of model by examining simultaneously the various categories of crime and police expenditure functions.
- Subjects
NEW Jersey; UNITED States; MUNICIPAL government; WASTE in government spending; COMMUNITY policing; POLICE; CRIMINAL justice system; SUBURBAN crimes; EXTERNALITIES; PUBLIC goods; ECONOMICS
- Publication
Land Economics, 1979, Vol 55, Issue 2, p200
- ISSN
0023-7639
- Publication type
Article
- DOI
10.2307/3146062