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Sports-based Entertainment and Crime Evidence from Football Games in Brazil

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  • Ilaria Masiero

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I investigate the relationship between sports-based entertainment and crime using nine years of hourly data on robberies and thefts by police district in São Paulo linked to information on 430 football matches. Results report a citywide voluntary incapacitation impact and a local spatial concentration effect. Robberies significantly drop during matches, especially high-audience ones. Around the stadiums, this effect is outweighed by that of concentration. While I find no evidence of spatial displacement, temporal displacement is at play, with offenses being moved up to pre-game time. I show that the game-crime link is likely deployed through potential criminals rather than victims.

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  • Ilaria Masiero, 2022. "Sports-based Entertainment and Crime Evidence from Football Games in Brazil," Journal of Sports Economics, , vol. 23(8), pages 1076-1095, December.
    • Handle: RePEc:sae:jospec:v:23:y:2022:i:8:p:1076-1095
    DOI: 10.1177/15270025221085714
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