The bottle and the damage done: Alcohol supply and related crime. Estimating the effects of Keskiolutlaki and subsequent crime rates

dc.contributorAalto-yliopistofi
dc.contributorAalto Universityen
dc.contributor.authorLuukkonen, Juha
dc.contributor.departmentTaloustieteen laitosfi
dc.contributor.departmentDepartment of Economicsen
dc.contributor.schoolKauppakorkeakoulufi
dc.contributor.schoolSchool of Businessen
dc.date.accessioned2016-01-19T09:33:18Z
dc.date.available2016-01-19T09:33:18Z
dc.date.dateaccepted2015-12-04
dc.date.issued2015
dc.description.abstractThe aim of this study is to find how municipal crime levels changed in Finland in relation to the municipal alcohol availability during the years 1960-1975. The main focus is in the legislative change known as Keskiolutlaki (enforced in 1969), which liberated the retail sales of medium-strength beer across the land and ended the prohibition-like conditions that existed in the rural municipalities. The study of this subtle relationship between alcohol and crime is done with regression analysis. Furthermore, tools such as fixed effects, differences-in-differences and Poisson regression are used in distinguishing this relationship. Before the regressions, I review the legislative change in a historical perspective, its implications to alcohol consumption and previous studies on how alcohol availability affects consequent crime rates. The main dependent variables of this study are overall crime, traffic crime, other crime, drunk arrests (which means drunk and disorderly conduct), batteries and 'fatal offences and attempts at these'. The main independent variables reflect the municipal-level alcohol supply in the consequent years. The crime levels are population adjusted (or exposed to the population in Poisson regressions). In order to further distinguish between how alcohol supply affected different municipalities' crime levels after the legislative change, a quasi-experimental, differences-in-differences -based research setup is used. The treatment and control groups are formed according to the placement of Alko stores, which the most distinct form of alcohol supply in Finland The spatial availability of alcohol supply can be seen to significantly influence arrests regarding more precise study: More time-invariant variables especially regarding socioeconomic and- demographic municipal differences and more accurate estimates on how the alcohol supply anden
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dc.identifier.urihttps://aaltodoc.aalto.fi/handle/123456789/19381
dc.identifier.urnURN:NBN:fi:aalto-201601191029
dc.language.isoenen
dc.locationP1 I
dc.programme.majorEconomicsen
dc.programme.majorKansantaloustiedefi
dc.subject.heleconlaskentatoimi
dc.subject.heleconaccounting
dc.subject.heleconalkoholi
dc.subject.heleconalcohol
dc.subject.heleconlainsäädäntö
dc.subject.heleconlegislation
dc.subject.heleconsosiaalipolitiikka
dc.subject.heleconsocial policy
dc.subject.heleconrikollisuus
dc.subject.heleconcriminality
dc.subject.heleconkunnat
dc.subject.heleconmunicipalities
dc.subject.keywordalcohol
dc.subject.keywordcrime
dc.subject.keywordKeskiolutlaki
dc.subject.keywordFinland
dc.subject.keywordregression
dc.subject.keywordPoisson
dc.subject.keywordfixed effects
dc.subject.keyworddiff-in-diff
dc.titleThe bottle and the damage done: Alcohol supply and related crime. Estimating the effects of Keskiolutlaki and subsequent crime ratesen
dc.typeG2 Pro gradu, diplomityöfi
dc.type.dcmitypetexten
dc.type.ontasotMaster's thesisen
dc.type.ontasotPro gradu tutkielmafi
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local.aalto.openaccessyes

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