EXAMINING THE MEDIATED RELATIONSHIP BETWEEN BUSINESS ESTABLISHMENTS AND CRIME

摘要

Although the impact of crime on small business activity is well documented and accepted, concentrating on how crime drives down profits, causing entrepreneurs to shy away from taking risks that could lead to prosperity. However, another perspective may exist linked to the fact that small businesses can create more jobs more quickly than large corporations, and in the process may help to retard crimes against people, property, and society. This study investigates this alternative, using lagged time series hierarchical regression to determine the impact of small business activity on different types of crime and the relationship between the number of business establishments and crime mediated by the number of paid employees.