Abstract
Large sporting events affect criminal behaviour via three channels: fan concentration, self-incapacitation and police displacement. I exploit information on football matches for London teams linked to detailed recorded crime data at the area level to estimate these effects empirically. I find that only property crime increases in the communities hosting matches but not violent offences. There is a negative away game attendance effect on crime which is due to voluntary incapacitation of potential offenders attending a match. Police displacement during home games increases property crime by 7 percentage points for every extra 10000 supporters in areas that are left underprotected.
| Original language | English |
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| Pages (from-to) | 273-292 |
| Number of pages | 20 |
| Journal | Journal of the Royal Statistical Society Series A-Statistics in Society |
| Volume | 179 |
| Issue number | 1 |
| Early online date | 3 Apr 2015 |
| DOIs | |
| Publication status | Published - Jan 2016 |
Keywords
- Crime
- Football matches
- Police displacement
- Self-incapacitation
- BEHAVIOR
- VIOLENCE