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Showing 1 to 6 of 6 for “"index crimes"”.
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Typhoons and Temperature Impact Crime Rates: Evidence from the Philippines
… temperature on interpersonal, property, and non-index crime rates using a novel data set from the Philippines. Distributed lag OLS regression analysis shows that in the concurrent year of increased precipitation, theft rates decrease, but in the year following high average wind-speeds, theft …
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Cultivation of fear of Blacks in Las Vegas television news media
… relationship existing between media reports of index crimes and actual data offered by the State of Nevada Department of Motor Vehicles and Public Safety, and was supported. There was partial support for hypothesis one. Results indicated that Latinos were overrepresented and that Blacks were …
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Serious, violent, and chronic juvenile offenders: a systems approach
… self-reported delinquency, includes violent Index crimes (for example, robbery, aggravated assault), serious property offenses (for example, burglary, motor vehicle theft), weapons offenses (for example, carrying a handgun, shooting a gun at someone), drug dealing offenses (for example, …
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Structural Indicators of Index Crime Rates in Metropolitan Counties for 1990 and 2000
This study examines the relationship between structural features common to research within social disorganization and strain theory frameworks of metropolitan counties in 1990 and 2000 and their crime rates. It hypothesizes that economic inequality, a measure of relative deprivation, will be a more …
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Education in West Africa
… during the great migration increases violent crimes by 21.28 in the 1970s and by 9.202 in the 1960s, while property crimes increased by 29.56 and 17.31 in the 1970s and the 1960s respectively. More specifically, all the seven index crimes respond positively to the increase of African …
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Education in West Africa
… during the great migration increases violent crimes by 21.28 in the 1970s and by 9.202 in the 1960s, while property crimes increased by 29.56 and 17.31 in the 1970s and the 1960s respectively. More specifically, all the seven index crimes respond positively to the increase of African …