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- Title
Sports-based Entertainment and Crime Evidence from Football Games in Brazil.
- Authors
Masiero, Ilaria
- Abstract
I investigate the relationship between sports-based entertainment and crime using nine years of hourly data on robberies and thefts by police district in São Paulo linked to information on 430 football matches. Results report a citywide voluntary incapacitation impact and a local spatial concentration effect. Robberies significantly drop during matches, especially high-audience ones. Around the stadiums, this effect is outweighed by that of concentration. While I find no evidence of spatial displacement, temporal displacement is at play, with offenses being moved up to pre-game time. I show that the game-crime link is likely deployed through potential criminals rather than victims.
- Subjects
BRAZIL; SAO Paulo (Brazil); FOOTBALL games; CRIME; AMUSEMENTS; THEFT; ROBBERY; TELEVISED sports
- Publication
Journal of Sports Economics, 2022, Vol 23, Issue 8, p1076
- ISSN
1527-0025
- Publication type
Article
- DOI
10.1177/15270025221085714