This bachelor thesis analyses the impact of state social protection on property and violent crime. The main objective of the thesis is to test the hypothesis that the level of state social protection has a negative effect on crime. To achieve this, annual panel data of 27 European Union countries between 2008 and 2020 are used. The central initial model for the economics of crime and the theoretical part of the bachelor thesis is the Becker model of crime (Becker, 1968). In the empirical part, a... show full abstractThis bachelor thesis analyses the impact of state social protection on property and violent crime. The main objective of the thesis is to test the hypothesis that the level of state social protection has a negative effect on crime. To achieve this, annual panel data of 27 European Union countries between 2008 and 2020 are used. The central initial model for the economics of crime and the theoretical part of the bachelor thesis is the Becker model of crime (Becker, 1968). In the empirical part, a model for property and violent crime is constructed, inspired by the studies of Deshpande and Mueller-Smith (2022) and Rudolph and Starke (2020). The model includes state social protection variables disaggregated according to ESSPROS criteria, unemployment rate, number of police officers and number of prisoners. Based on the model developed, the established hypothesis is rejected. |