The Impact of Single-Family Mortgage Foreclosures on Neighborhood Crime.

Link shamlessly copied from John Robb's site, who seems to always go all Forth Turning with every new data set. The paper is limited but worth a quick read. Having sat through the classes and worked the street, I think it's a 'chicken & egg' arguement. Criminals have all the time and numbers to shape their environment into whatever they want within governement tolerances. I also tend to get queasy when someone offers up an equation in a study to help explain the problem, but I know economists can't help themselves when it comes to equations.