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Untangling the determinants of crime in South Africa

Includes abstract. / Includes bibliographical references. / This study investigates the relationships between several key economic, sociodemographic and infrastructural factors and crime in South Africa. Using the five March waves, 2003 to 2007, of the Labour Force Survey and crime statistics for the five-year period from April 2003 to March 2008 from the South African Police Service, this paper examines factors associated with aggregate property and violent crime rates at the district council level.

Identiferoai:union.ndltd.org:netd.ac.za/oai:union.ndltd.org:uct/oai:localhost:11427/11547
Date January 2013
CreatorsVerrinder, Noel
ContributorsBhorat, Haroon
PublisherUniversity of Cape Town, Faculty of Commerce, School of Economics
Source SetsSouth African National ETD Portal
LanguageEnglish
Detected LanguageEnglish
TypeMaster Thesis, Masters, MEcon
Formatapplication/pdf

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