| Description |
1 online resource (206 pages) |
| Series |
Criminal Justice: Recent Scholarship |
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Criminal justice (LFB Scholarly Publishing LLC)
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| Contents |
List of Tables; Acknowledgments; Preface; 01 Killing Trends; 02 What Does Age, Race, and Gender Have to Do With It?; 03 Chaos in the 'Hoods; 04 Toolkit for Homicide Analysis; 05 Pieces of the Homicide Puzzle; 06 Forecasting Homicides; 07 What Now?; Appendix A: Homicide Variables; Appendix B: Census Variables; Appendix C: Models Fitting Regressions; References; Index |
| Summary |
Laurikkala studies youth homicides between 1965 and 1995 in Chicago. She considers variables relating to the offender, victim, setting, and precursors to the homicide by race and gender. Her results indicate that youth homicides involved increases in lethal gang altercations, particularly among Latinos, and an increased use of automatic weapons. Young females had very little impact on homicide rates in Chicago. The findings point to several measures of social disorganization that could aid in the prediction of youth homicides, albeit varying across groups. Overall, the results support social d |
| Analysis |
Homicide |
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Homicide offenders |
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United States of America |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references and index |
| Notes |
English |
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Print version record |
| Subject |
Juvenile homicide -- United States
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Criminal behavior, Prediction of -- United States
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TRUE CRIME -- General.
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Criminal behavior, Prediction of.
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Juvenile homicide.
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United States.
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| Form |
Electronic book
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| ISBN |
9781593326685 |
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1593326688 |
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