Copper cable theft: revisiting the price–theft hypothesis

Sidebottom, A, Ashby, M ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-4201-9239 and Johnson, SD, 2014. Copper cable theft: revisiting the price–theft hypothesis. Journal of Research in Crime and Delinquency, 51 (5), pp. 684-700. ISSN 0022-4278

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Abstract

Objectives: To test the commonly espoused but little examined hypothesis that fluctuations in the price of metal are associated with changes in the volume of metal theft. Specifically, we analyze the relationship between the price of copper and the number of police recorded 'live’ copper cable thefts from the British railway network (2006 to 2012).

Item Type:	Journal article
Publication Title:	Journal of Research in Crime and Delinquency
Creators:	Sidebottom, A., Ashby, M. and Johnson, S.D.
Publisher:	SAGE
Date:	2014
Volume:	51
Number:	5
ISSN:	0022-4278
Identifiers:	Number Type 10.1177/0022427814521216 DOI
Rights:	© The Author(s) 2014. Reprints and permission: sagepub.com/journalsPermissions.nav.
Divisions:	Schools > School of Social Sciences
Record created by:	EPrints Services
Date Added:	09 Oct 2015 10:16
Last Modified:	09 Jun 2017 13:24
URI:	https://irep.ntu.ac.uk/id/eprint/10275

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