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...
Main Author: | Watkins, Kenneth L. |
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Format: | Others |
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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 |
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