わが国の農村が持つ社会安定化機能

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　　　The aim of this paper is to estimate the function of rural communities to reduce the crime rate in Japan. I estimated simultaneous equations models which consist of the crime supply function, the crime clearance function , and the police demand function. Through the estimation of the model, I found followings.
　　　First, in the rural area, the crime rate is significantly lower than that in the urban area. Second, in the rural area, the arrest rate is higher than that in the urban area. Third, in the rural area, the police expenditure per capita is lower than that in the urban area.