Drug-related crime and poverty in South Africa

This paper argues that the link between poverty and drug-related crime might be spurious. We take an empirical approach to investigate the causality and plausibility of this link. Firstly, we regress crime against envisaged explanatory variables in order to estimate the contribution of poverty to cr...

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Main Authors: Priviledge Cheteni, Gisele Mah, Yohane Khamfula Yohane
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Taylor & Francis Group 2018-01-01
Series:Cogent Economics & Finance
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Online Access:http://dx.doi.org/10.1080/23322039.2018.1534528