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A factor analysis of the socio-economic structure of riot and crime prone cities
Abstract The major purpose of this paper is to investigate whether individual attacks against property and the recent urban riots, which researchers also agree were property oriented, arise out of a similar set of socio-economic conditions. The paper proceeds by first briefly reviewing the theoretical and empirical literature on the causes of crime and collective violence. This literature is then drawn upon to construct 24 independent variables which are measures of income, employment and educational opportunities, population characteristics and socio-political conditions. The statistical analysis in the second part of the paper employed a sample of 129 large Standard Metropolitan Statistical Areas, 64 of which experienced one or more incidents of racial violence between 1965 and 1968 and 65 of which were nonriot SMSA's. From the 24 variables, seven factors were extracted by the minimum residual method and orthogonally rotated by the Kaiser varimax technique. These seven factors were then used as independent variables in both regression and discriminate analysis in which riot intensity (measured by property and economic loss) and property crime rates were used as independent variables. The paper concludes that criminal behavior derives from fundamentally different causes than does riot activity.
A factor analysis of the socio-economic structure of riot and crime prone cities
Abstract The major purpose of this paper is to investigate whether individual attacks against property and the recent urban riots, which researchers also agree were property oriented, arise out of a similar set of socio-economic conditions. The paper proceeds by first briefly reviewing the theoretical and empirical literature on the causes of crime and collective violence. This literature is then drawn upon to construct 24 independent variables which are measures of income, employment and educational opportunities, population characteristics and socio-political conditions. The statistical analysis in the second part of the paper employed a sample of 129 large Standard Metropolitan Statistical Areas, 64 of which experienced one or more incidents of racial violence between 1965 and 1968 and 65 of which were nonriot SMSA's. From the 24 variables, seven factors were extracted by the minimum residual method and orthogonally rotated by the Kaiser varimax technique. These seven factors were then used as independent variables in both regression and discriminate analysis in which riot intensity (measured by property and economic loss) and property crime rates were used as independent variables. The paper concludes that criminal behavior derives from fundamentally different causes than does riot activity.
A factor analysis of the socio-economic structure of riot and crime prone cities
McNown, Robert F. (author) / Singell, Larry D. (author)
1974
Article (Journal)
English
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