The historical variability of the age-crime relationship

David F. Greenberg

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The historical variability of the age-crime relationship

David F. Greenberg

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Abstract

Methodological problems arising in fitting nonlinear regressions to a dataset are identified in context of research on the age-crime relationship. A modified chisquare distribution is fit to the age distribution of the seven Index crimes for the years 1952, 1957, 1962, 1967, 1972, 1977, 1982, and 1988 to assess the historical invariance of the distribution. Problematic features of Britt's (J. Quant. Criminol. 8, 175-187, 1992) analysis of the same data are highlighted.

Original language	English (US)
Pages (from-to)	361-373
Number of pages	13
Journal	Journal of Quantitative Criminology
Volume	10
Issue number	4
DOIs	https://doi.org/10.1007/BF02221281
State	Published - Dec 1994

Keywords

age distribution of crime
chi-square function
gamma density function
general theory of crime
mathematical-form invariance
residuals

ASJC Scopus subject areas

Pathology and Forensic Medicine
Law

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