Objectives

Determine if there is a meaningful relationship between variation in price and theft rates of the same type of good over time.

Methods

Studies were identified by systematically searching major electronic scholarly and grey literature databases and employing footnote chasing.

Results

From a total of 1717 identified unique documents, 16 studies were assessed as meeting the eligibility criteria for inclusion. Elastic and significant metal price-theft relationships were reported across 13 studies. The relationship between petrol price and petrol theft was also found to be significant and meaningful, but less elastic than for metals. Mixed results were found for the price-theft relationships of jewellery and different consumer goods.

Conclusions

Evidence was found for the relationship between price and theft rates of some goods but not others, with gradations in strength of the relationship across goods, study characteristics and model specifications.

中文翻译：

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消费品和商品的价格变化与盗窃率之间的关系：系统评价

目标

确定同一类型商品的价格变化与盗窃率之间是否存在有意义的关系。

方法

通过系统地搜索主要的电子学术和灰色文献数据库并使用脚注追踪来确定研究。

结果

从总共 1717 份确定的独特文件中，有 16 项研究被评估为符合纳入标准。13 项研究报告了弹性且显着的金属价格盗窃关系。汽油价格和盗窃之间的关系也被发现是显着和有意义的，但不如金属弹性。珠宝和不同消费品的价格盗窃关系的结果好坏参半。

结论

发现了一些商品的价格与盗窃率之间的关系的证据，而其他商品则没有，商品、研究特征和模型规格之间的关系强度呈阶梯状。