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No policy designed to prevent firearm violence is more popular than mandatory sentence enhancements for gun crimes. By providing stiff and certain penalties when a gun is involved in an offense, sentence enhancement laws' promise to reduce the use of
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https://doi.org/10.4324/9781315089256-21
https://doi.org/10.4324/9781315089256-21
Publikováno v:
Homicide Studies. 19:6-27
We investigated the precision of Supplementary Homicide Report (SHR) homicide rate estimates for large U.S. cities during the 5 years, 1998-2002. The homicide rates based on the National Vital Statistics System provided a parallel measure and the bas
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https://doi.org/10.1177/1088767914551984
https://doi.org/10.1177/1088767914551984
Publikováno v:
Journal of Quantitative Criminology. 28:389-410
Seasonal crime patterns have been a topic of sustained criminological research for more than a century. Results in the area are often conflicting, however, and no firm consensus exists on many points. The current study uses a long time series and a l
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https://doi.org/10.1007/s10940-011-9145-7
https://doi.org/10.1007/s10940-011-9145-7
Autor:
David McDowall, Colin Loftin
Publikováno v:
Journal of Quantitative Criminology. 26:527-532
What are "Official" RecordsThe term "official records" is broad and would include data taken from any set of administrative records in order to measure crime or features of criminal justice. In practice, it is usually taken to refer to police or cour
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https://doi.org/10.1007/s10940-010-9120-8
https://doi.org/10.1007/s10940-010-9120-8
Autor:
David McDowall, Colin Loftin
Publikováno v:
Journal of Quantitative Criminology. 25:307-324
This study considers the degree to which the crime rates of US cities follow a uniform national trend. A nationwide trend has consequences for theories that explain aggregate changes in crime, but how closely subnational units hold to a common time p
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https://doi.org/10.1007/s10940-009-9071-0
https://doi.org/10.1007/s10940-009-9071-0
Publikováno v:
Homicide Studies. 12:234-248
When linking records from the Supplementary Homicide Report (SHR) with information from other sources, such as data from the U.S. Census Bureau, errors are likely to occur because police service areas in some cities do not match the political definit
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https://doi.org/10.1177/1088767908319598
https://doi.org/10.1177/1088767908319598
Publikováno v:
Journal of Contemporary Criminal Justice. 24:4-17
Differences between homicide estimates for large cities from 1987 through 1991 using the Supplementary Homicide Report (SHR) and the National Vital Statistics System (NVSS) are reported. Large differences exist between the NVSS and the SHR estimates
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https://doi.org/10.1177/1043986207312585
https://doi.org/10.1177/1043986207312585
Autor:
David McDowall, Colin Loftin
Publikováno v:
Journal of Research in Crime and Delinquency. 42:359-383
Conventional explanations of crime rate trends assume that changes in the rates follow a process that is linear and constant, and that draws its inputs from a normal distribution. These features ensure that the present is linearly predictable from th
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https://doi.org/10.1177/0022427804270050
https://doi.org/10.1177/0022427804270050
Autor:
Colin Loftin, David McDowall
Publikováno v:
Homicide Studies. 7:353-367
In 1998, Cohen described a study showing that in the United States, regionally distributed culture controls the direction of the relationship between social stability and homicide rates. In the South and West, where, according to Cohen, there is a cu
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https://doi.org/10.1177/1088767903256553
https://doi.org/10.1177/1088767903256553
Publikováno v:
International Journal of Sociology and Social Policy. 22:109-121
Cohen (1998) describes a study showing that, in the US, regionally distributed culture controls the direction of the relationship between social disorganization and homicide rates. In the South and West, where, according to the Nisbett‐Cohen theory
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https://doi.org/10.1108/01443330210790111
https://doi.org/10.1108/01443330210790111