This study is an attempt to determine the impact of the "War on Drugs" in the State of Florida. The focus is on the possibility of a relationship between the increased police emphasis on the illicit drug market and the incidence of property crime. Hypotheses concerning the police's ability to prevent crime (deterrence), geographic spillovers of criminals, functional spillovers, and the budgetary impacts of the drug war are developed using a structural model familiar in the economics of crime literature. / The data set used in the empirical model consists of observations for each of the municipal police and sheriff departments in the State of Florida from 1984 to 1987. The data set is somewhat unique in that it is confined to a state where most exogenous institutional factors are similar. / The empirical analysis suggests: Police appear to be able to deter property crime at the margin; relative differences in police efforts (across jurisdictions) against both property crime and drug crime result in the geographic spillover of property crime; there appears to be a property crime--drug arrests tradeoff; police agency budgets are, in part, determined by the number of drug arrests they make. Overall, there is evidence of unintended consequences of the increased effort against drugs in Florida. / Source: Dissertation Abstracts International, Volume: 52-03, Section: A, page: 1013. / Major Professor: Bruce L. Benson. / Thesis (Ph.D.)--The Florida State University, 1991.
| Identifer | oai:union.ndltd.org:fsu.edu/oai:fsu.digital.flvc.org:fsu_76337 |
| Contributors | Sollars, David Lindsey., Florida State University |
| Source Sets | Florida State University |
| Language | English |
| Detected Language | English |
| Type | Text |
| Format | 201 p. |
| Rights | On campus use only. |
| Relation | Dissertation Abstracts International |
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