SOCIAL INDICATORS AND METROPOLITAN VARIATIONS IN CRIME

• NCJ Number: 17129
• Author(s): K D HARRIES
• Date Published: 1973
• Length: 5 pages
• Corporate Author: Assoc of American Geographers
• Sale Source: National Institute of Justice/
• Publication Type: Report (Study/Research)
• Language: English
• Country: United States of America
• Note: FROM PROCEEDINGS OF THE ASSOCIATION OF AMERICAN GEOGRAPHERS, V 5

Annotation

UTILIZING A COMPARATIVE ANALYSIS OF URBAN DATA, THIS PAPER SETS OUT TO PROVIDE A TENTATIVE SPATIAL EXPLANATION OF METROPOLITAN CRIME VARIATIONS.

Abstract

THE FINDINGS CONFIRM AND SUPPLEMENT PREVIOUS ASPATIAL RESEARCH IN CRIMINOLOGY, WHILE ADDING NEW INDEPENDENT VARIABLES AND PRESENTING A TENTATIVE QUADRIPARTITE TYPOLOGY OF STANDARD METROPOLITAN STATISTICAL AREAS'S BASED ON RATES OF SERIOUS CRIMES AGAINST PROPERTY AND THE PERSON. STEPWISE REGRESSION ANALYSIS, UTILIZING ORTHOGONAL INPUT VARIABLES, REVEALS THE IMPORTANCE OF A MINORITY FACTOR, OF YOUTHFUL POPULATION, AND OF SIZE OF METROPOLIS, IN THE EXPLANATION OF VARIATIONS IN CRIME RATES. (AUTHOR ABSTRACT)