Structural correlates of crime reporting : a mini-longitudinal analysis

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dc.contributor.authorKu, Mei-Lynen_US
dc.date.accessioned2024-08-14T18:34:01Z
dc.date.available2024-08-14T18:34:01Z
dc.date.copyright1977en_US
dc.date.issued1977
dc.degree.departmentDepartment of Sociology
dc.degree.levelMaster of Arts M.A.en
dc.description.abstractIt is the purpose of this study to examine whe­ther certain structural characteristics are significantly related to crime rates and whether the relationships be­tween those structural characteristics and crime rates are constant over time. This is done by investigating the relationship between specific structural indicators and crime rates using multivariate analysis for data from 1960 and 1970. Two hypotheses are tested: 1. That structural characteristics are significantly related to crime rates; and 2. That the relationships between structural character­istics and crime rates are constant over time. Eight structural variables that have most frequently been found to be associated with crime rates in previous research are used as independent variables in this study. These are: (1) age; (2) sex; (3) race; (4) population density; (5) ur­banization; (6) unemployment; (7) mobility; and (8) socio­economic status. The data gathered in the present thesis include information from all 50 states in the United States for both 1960 and 1970. It was found that only urbanization and percent black are significantly related to three categories of crime rates (property crime rates, violent crime rates and total crime rates). It was also found that the relation­ships between structural characteristics and crime rates are not constant over time. It is suggested that future studies on structural correlates of crime should carefully control the related variables in order to more clearly establish the relationship between structural characteristics and crime rates.en_US
dc.format.extent71 pages
dc.identifier.urihttps://hdl.handle.net/1828/18502
dc.rightsAvailable to the World Wide Weben_US
dc.titleStructural correlates of crime reporting : a mini-longitudinal analysisen_US
dc.typeThesisen_US

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