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
Subjects:	Administrative Law
Online Access:	http://digitalcommons.auctr.edu/dissertations/991 http://digitalcommons.auctr.edu/cgi/viewcontent.cgi?article=2579&context=dissertations

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spelling	ndltd-auctr.edu-oai-digitalcommons.auctr.edu-dissertations-25792015-07-29T03:02:43Z Hunger, homelessness, poverty, and unemployment effects on crime: A study of twenty-five American cities Watkins, Kenneth L. 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 assault, burglary, larceny, motor vehi cle theft, and arson. Pearson Correlation and Multiple Regression analyses were used to test four hypotheses. Both of these analyses were found not to be significantly related to the overall crime index rates. However, they were found to be signifi cantly related to individual index crime category rates. 1987-12-01T08:00:00Z text application/pdf http://digitalcommons.auctr.edu/dissertations/991 http://digitalcommons.auctr.edu/cgi/viewcontent.cgi?article=2579&context=dissertations ETD Collection for Robert W. Woodruff Library, Atlanta University Center DigitalCommons@Robert W. Woodruff Library, Atlanta University Center Administrative Law
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description	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 assault, burglary, larceny, motor vehi cle theft, and arson. Pearson Correlation and Multiple Regression analyses were used to test four hypotheses. Both of these analyses were found not to be significantly related to the overall crime index rates. However, they were found to be signifi cantly related to individual index crime category rates.
author	Watkins, Kenneth L.
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title	Hunger, homelessness, poverty, and unemployment effects on crime: A study of twenty-five American cities
title_short	Hunger, homelessness, poverty, and unemployment effects on crime: A study of twenty-five American cities
title_full	Hunger, homelessness, poverty, and unemployment effects on crime: A study of twenty-five American cities
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Hunger, homelessness, poverty, and unemployment effects on crime: A study of twenty-five American cities

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