Buonanno Response To Unemployment

Paolo Buonanno, Francesco Drago and Roberto Galbiati, all authors of “Response of Crime to Unemployment: An International Comparison,” in collection believe that the condition the economic system is in determines whether crime rate will be higher or not. The hypothesis is that “crime rates are more sensitive to unemployment rate during recession rather than during recoveries” (Buonanno, Drago and Galbiati, 2011). It is also seen that when recession increases, unemployment increases which in turn lowers the opportunity for a criminal to commit their crime.
Research has found a positive correlation between the decline in economic conditions and crime therefore Buonanno gives one example of “using a reduced form-macro approach could reach the