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Structural Covariates of Homicide Rates: Are There Any Invariances Across Time and Social Space?

Land, Kenneth C., McCall, Patricia L., Cohen, Lawrence E.·1990·American Journal of Sociology
DOI 10.1086/229381
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This study demonstrate that the empirical literature on the structural convariates of homicide rates contains inconsistent findings across different time periods and different geographical units. This apparent variance of findings may be due to statistical or methodological artifacts of particular studies, such as different time periods covered, units of analysis, samples, model specification, and problems of statistical analysis and inference. A baseline regression model using 11 structural covariates is estimated for cities, metropolitan areas, and states in 1960, 1970, and 1980. The empirical estimates of this model exhibit instability because of high levels of collinearity among several regressors. Principal components analysis is applied to simplify the dimensionally of the structural covariate space. Reestimation of the regression model then indicates that the apparent inconsistencies across time and social space are greatly reduced. The theoretical significance of the findings for substantive theories of violent crime are discussed.

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  • The study controls for structural characteristics commonly associated with neighborhood-level crime: percent non-Hispanic black, percent Latino, percent below poverty, and percent renting.

    “To account for the structural characteristics commonly associated with neighborhood-level crime (Land, McCall, and Cohen 1990), we draw on U.S. Census data and calculate the following measures at the block-group level: percent of the population that is nonHispanic black; percent of the population that is Latino; percent of households below the poverty line; and percent of households that rent.”

    From Police Violence and Citizen Crime Reporting in the Black Community (2016) · cites this paper as Land, McCall, and Cohen 1990

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Authors
Land, K. C., McCall, P. L., & Cohen, L. E.
Venue
American Journal of Sociology
Publisher
University of Chicago Press
Published
1990-01
Volume
95
Issue
4
Pages
922-963
ISSN
  • 0002-9602
  • 1537-5390
DOI
10.1086/229381
Cited by
866
References
3
Language
en

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