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Druglords don’t stay at home: COVID-19 pandemic and crime patterns in Mexico City
OBJECTIVE: To investigate the effect of the COVID-19 pandemic on conventional crime and organized crime in Mexico City, Mexico. METHODS: Mexico City's Attorney General's Office reported crime data, covering domestic violence, burglary, robbery, vehicle theft, assault-battery, homicides, ki...
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2021
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Acceso en línea: | https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC7513803/ https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/32994650 http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.jcrimjus.2020.101745 |
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author | Balmori de la Miyar, Jose Roberto Hoehn-Velasco, Lauren Silverio-Murillo, Adan |
author_facet | Balmori de la Miyar, Jose Roberto Hoehn-Velasco, Lauren Silverio-Murillo, Adan |
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description | OBJECTIVE: To investigate the effect of the COVID-19 pandemic on conventional crime and organized crime in Mexico City, Mexico. METHODS: Mexico City's Attorney General's Office reported crime data, covering domestic violence, burglary, robbery, vehicle theft, assault-battery, homicides, kidnapping, and extortion. We use an event study for the intertemporal variation across the 16 districts (municipalities) in Mexico City for 2019 and 2020. RESULTS: We find a sharp decrease on crimes related to domestic violence, burglary, and vehicle theft; a decrease during some weeks on crimes related to assault-battery and extortion, and no effects on crimes related to robbery, kidnapping, and homicides. CONCLUSIONS: While our results show a decline in conventional crime during the COVID- 19 pandemic, organized crime remains steady. These findings have policy implications for catastrophic events around the world, as well as possible national security issues in Mexico. |
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spelling | pubmed-75138032020-09-25 Druglords don’t stay at home: COVID-19 pandemic and crime patterns in Mexico City Balmori de la Miyar, Jose Roberto Hoehn-Velasco, Lauren Silverio-Murillo, Adan J Crim Justice Article OBJECTIVE: To investigate the effect of the COVID-19 pandemic on conventional crime and organized crime in Mexico City, Mexico. METHODS: Mexico City's Attorney General's Office reported crime data, covering domestic violence, burglary, robbery, vehicle theft, assault-battery, homicides, kidnapping, and extortion. We use an event study for the intertemporal variation across the 16 districts (municipalities) in Mexico City for 2019 and 2020. RESULTS: We find a sharp decrease on crimes related to domestic violence, burglary, and vehicle theft; a decrease during some weeks on crimes related to assault-battery and extortion, and no effects on crimes related to robbery, kidnapping, and homicides. CONCLUSIONS: While our results show a decline in conventional crime during the COVID- 19 pandemic, organized crime remains steady. These findings have policy implications for catastrophic events around the world, as well as possible national security issues in Mexico. Elsevier Ltd. 2021 2020-09-24 /pmc/articles/PMC7513803/ /pubmed/32994650 http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.jcrimjus.2020.101745 Text en © 2020 Elsevier Ltd. All rights reserved. Since January 2020 Elsevier has created a COVID-19 resource centre with free information in English and Mandarin on the novel coronavirus COVID-19. The COVID-19 resource centre is hosted on Elsevier Connect, the company's public news and information website. Elsevier hereby grants permission to make all its COVID-19-related research that is available on the COVID-19 resource centre - including this research content - immediately available in PubMed Central and other publicly funded repositories, such as the WHO COVID database with rights for unrestricted research re-use and analyses in any form or by any means with acknowledgement of the original source. These permissions are granted for free by Elsevier for as long as the COVID-19 resource centre remains active. |
spellingShingle | Article Balmori de la Miyar, Jose Roberto Hoehn-Velasco, Lauren Silverio-Murillo, Adan Druglords don’t stay at home: COVID-19 pandemic and crime patterns in Mexico City |
title | Druglords don’t stay at home: COVID-19 pandemic and crime patterns in Mexico City |
title_full | Druglords don’t stay at home: COVID-19 pandemic and crime patterns in Mexico City |
title_fullStr | Druglords don’t stay at home: COVID-19 pandemic and crime patterns in Mexico City |
title_full_unstemmed | Druglords don’t stay at home: COVID-19 pandemic and crime patterns in Mexico City |
title_short | Druglords don’t stay at home: COVID-19 pandemic and crime patterns in Mexico City |
title_sort | druglords don’t stay at home: covid-19 pandemic and crime patterns in mexico city |
topic | Article |
url | https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC7513803/ https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/32994650 http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.jcrimjus.2020.101745 |
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