Hunger, homelessness, poverty, and unemployment effects on crime: A study of twenty-five American cities

This thesis measured the effects of four economic independent variables (hunger, homelessness, poverty, and unemployment) on crime index reported to the police in twenty-five selected American cities. The eight dependent variables that were used in this study are murder, rape, robbery, aggravated as...

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Main Author: Watkins, Kenneth L.
Format: Others
Published: DigitalCommons@Robert W. Woodruff Library, Atlanta University Center 1987
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Online Access:http://digitalcommons.auctr.edu/dissertations/991
http://digitalcommons.auctr.edu/cgi/viewcontent.cgi?article=2579&context=dissertations