Journal article
Cashlessness and Street Crime: A Cross-national Study of Direct Deposit Payment and Robbery Rates
Justice quarterly, Vol.35(5), pp.919-939
01/01/2018
DOI: 10.1080/07418825.2018.1424923
Abstract
Substantial variation in national crime rates suggests social structure and cultural context influence offending and victimization. Several prominent criminological theories anticipate a positive association between the prevalence of cash in a society and its rates of pecuniary crime. We examined the association between one form of cashlessness and national robbery rates across nations (n=67), controlling for several structural covariates of national crime rates. We obtained data on robbery from the United Nations Office on Drugs and Crime, and data on government-based cashlessness from the Global Financial Inclusion Database. We found nations with higher levels of government-based cashlessness had lower robbery rates (=-.41, p=.02). We also undertook several sensitivity analyses, including tests for a relationship with commercial cashlessness and for crimes like homicide and burglary. Our results suggest technological advancements that reduce cash in a society may have implications for a nation's robbery rates.
Details
- Title: Subtitle
- Cashlessness and Street Crime: A Cross-national Study of Direct Deposit Payment and Robbery Rates
- Creators
- William Alex Pridemore - SUNY Albany, Albany, NY 12222 USASean Patrick Roche - Texas State Univ, Sch Criminal Justice, San Marcos, TX USAMeghan L. Rogers - Univ N Carolina, Dept Sociol & Criminol, Wilmington, NC USA
- Resource Type
- Journal article
- Publication Details
- Justice quarterly, Vol.35(5), pp.919-939
- Publisher
- Taylor & Francis
- DOI
- 10.1080/07418825.2018.1424923
- ISSN
- 0741-8825
- eISSN
- 1745-9109
- Number of pages
- 21
- Language
- English
- Date published
- 01/01/2018
- Academic Unit
- Sociology and Criminology; Center for Social Science Innovation
- Record Identifier
- 9984305976702771
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