THE HISTORICAL VARIABILITY OF THE AGE CRIME RELATIONSHIP

Authors
GREENBERG DF
Citation
Df. Greenberg, THE HISTORICAL VARIABILITY OF THE AGE CRIME RELATIONSHIP, Journal of quantitative criminology, 10(4), 1994, pp. 361-373
Citations number
13
Categorie Soggetti
Criminology & Penology
Journal title
Journal of quantitative criminology → ACNP
ISSN journal
07484518
Volume
10
Issue
4
Year of publication
1994
Pages
361 - 373
Database
ISI
SICI code
0748-4518(1994)10:4<361:THVOTA>2.0.ZU;2-1
Abstract
Methodological problems arising in fitting nonlinear regressions to a dataset are identified in context of research on the age-crime relatio nship. A modified chi-square distribution is fit to the age distributi on of the seven Index crimes for the years 1952, 1957, 1962, 1967, 197 2, 1977, 1982, and 1988 to assess the historical invariance of the dis tribution. Problematic features of Britt's (J. Quant. Criminol. 8, 175 -187, 1992) analysis of the same data are highlighted.