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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Format: | Article |
Language: | English |
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Taylor & Francis Group
2018-01-01
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Series: | Cogent Economics & Finance |
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Online Access: | http://dx.doi.org/10.1080/23322039.2018.1534528 |