Discontinuities in the Age-Victimisation Profile and the Determinants of Victimisation

• 成果类型: Article
• 署名作者: Bindler, Anna; Hjalmarsson, Randi; Ketel, Nadine; Mitrut, Andreea
• 署名单位: University of Cologne; University of Gothenburg; Centre for Economic Policy Research - UK; Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam; IZA Institute Labor Economics; Tinbergen Institute; Stockholm School of Economics
• 刊物名称: ECONOMIC JOURNAL
• ISSN/ISSBN: 0013-0133
• DOI: 10.1093/ej/uead070
• 发表日期: 2023
• 页码: 95-134
• 关键词: crime; alcohol; RISK; externalities; delinquency; deterrence; PUNISHMENT; inference; football; cannabis

摘要

Dutch victimisation rates increase by 9%-15% immediately upon reaching ages 16 and 18. We disentangle the role of the many rights granted at these ages using offence location data, cross-cohort variation in the minimum legal drinking age driven by a 2014 reform and survey data of alcohol/drug consumption and mobility behaviours. We conclude that access to weak alcohol, bars/clubs and smoking increases victimisation at 16 and that age-18 rights (hard alcohol, marijuana coffee shops) exacerbate this risk; vehicle access does not play an important role. We find no evidence of systematic spillovers onto individuals still ineligible for these rights.