Spatial inequality in unsolved crimes: Evidence from small neighborhoods
利用2013至2018年英格兰和威尔士的警方记录与司法结果数据，首次揭示全国小邻域间破案率的巨大且持续的空间不平等，发现同一城市或警区内不同邻域破案率差异显著，且高犯罪率邻域破案率也较高，但不同犯罪类型间存在异质性。
Abstract Using administrative data on the universe of police recorded crime linked to judicial outcomes for England and Wales from January 2013 to December 2018, we document—for the first time—large and persistent spatial inequalities in the proportion of solved and unsolved crimes across small neighborhoods covering a whole country. We find substantial differences across neighborhoods in the same municipality or police force. Fixed effects decompositions suggest that neighborhoods have different clearance rates across different crimes and that high‐crime neighborhoods also have high clearance rates, but with substantial heterogeneity across offences. Clearance rates correlate systematically with neighborhood composition.