Visualizing Changes in the Age-Distributions of Homicides in the United States: 1964–2019

Objective To demonstrate how visualization can aid in understanding crime rate data and provide new insights and hypotheses for some central criminological questions about homicide offending over time. Methods The research uses arrest data that is based on a mixture of single year age data and other...

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Published in:	Journal of quantitative criminology Vol. 39; no. 2; pp. 495 - 518
Main Author:	O’Brien, Robert M.
Format:	Journal Article
Language:	English
Published:	New York Springer US 01.06.2023 Springer Nature B.V
Subjects:	Age Age groups Arrests Crime Criminal statistics Criminology Criminology and Criminal Justice Data Graphs Homicide Law and Criminolgy Methodology of the Social Sciences Murders & murder attempts Offending Original Paper Rates Sociology Statistical analysis Statistical methods Statistics Visualization Youth United States > US The great drop in U.S. homicide rates Visualizing homicide rates by age Invariant age curve of homicide offending Cohort effects on the age curve of homicide offending Epidemic of youth homicide
ISSN:	0748-4518, 1573-7799
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