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Exploring the consequences of erratic data reporting for cross-national research on homicide
This paper examines the common practice in cross-national research on homicide of using crime estimates for a multiyear period based on a smaller number of years than theoretically desired because of erratic d...
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Point Blank and the evidence: A rejoinder to Gary Kleck
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Point blank against itself: Evidence and inference about guns, crime, and gun control
This essay considers the empirical foundations for some of the more important and controversial conclusions concerning guns, crime, and gun control advanced in Gary Kleck’s highly influential treatise,Point Blank
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The Spatial Patterning of County Homicide Rates: An Application of Exploratory Spatial Data Analysis
The possibility that homicides can spread from one geographic area toanother has been entertained for some time by social scientists, yetsystematic efforts to demonstrate the existence, or estimate the strengt...
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Reassessing the Cross-National Relationship Between Income Inequality and Homicide Rates: Implications of Data Quality Control in the Measurement of Income Distribution
A significant positive relationship between income inequality and homicide rates has been found in a large number of cross-sectional studies and a few longitudinal analyses; a theoretically interesting interac...
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Not ‘Islands, Entire of Themselves’: Exploring the Spatial Context of City-level Robbery Rates
The current study examines spatial dependence in robbery rates for a sample of 1,056 cities with 25,000 or more residents over the 2000–2003 period. Although commonly considered in some macro-level research, s...
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What They Don’t Know Says A Lot: Residents’ Knowledge of Neighborhood Crime in Contemporary China
Our study questions the common assumption of random DK responses in criminology survey data and emphasizes the importance of understanding and handling DK for gaining substantive criminological knowledge. It e...