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The crime drop or crime decline is a pattern observed in many countries whereby rates of many types of crime declined by 50% or more beginning in the mid...

correlates of crime explore the associations of specific non-criminal factors with specific crimes. The field of criminology studies the dynamics of crime. Most...

Sutherland's differential association in the 1950s. While Matza and Sykes were at the time working on juvenile delinquency, they hypothesised that the same...

relationship between race and crime has been a topic of public controversy and scholarly debate for more than a century. Crime rates vary significantly between...

refers to a hypothesis that the effects of structural disadvantage on rates of violent crime are the same for all racial groups. This hypothesis is a major...

communities. The weathering hypothesis is more widely accepted as a framework for explaining health disparities on the basis of differential exposure to racially...

signs of crime, antisocial behavior and civil disorder create an urban environment that encourages further crime and disorder, including serious crimes. The...

rejected the established classical school, which held that crime was a characteristic trait of human nature. Instead, using concepts drawn from physiognomy...

of white-collar crime, who may not be clearly identifiable or directly linked to crime against a particular individual. Victims of white-collar crime...

David (1 May 2016). "The Trump Hypothesis: Testing Immigrant Populations as a Determinant of Violent and Drug-Related Crime in the United States". Social...

evidence – transient evidence – transylvanian hypothesis – treason – trespass uni-causal – uniform crime report – universal jurisdiction – usury – utilitarianism...

model. A hypothesis is proposed for the statistical relationship between the two data sets, an alternative to an idealized null hypothesis of no relationship...

estimate and its hypothesized value under the null hypothesis, where the weight is the precision of the estimate. Intuitively, the larger this weighted...

the threat of punishment will deter people from committing crime and reduce the probability and/or level of offending in society. It is one of five objectives...

Piketty argues that the "magical" Kuznets curve hypothesis, with its emphasis on the balancing of economic growth in the long run, cannot account for...

Psychological Association's 1995 report Intelligence: Knowns and Unknowns stated that the correlation between IQ and crime was −0.2. This association is generally...

assumes no association between treatments. On the other hand, the alternative hypothesis is the denial of HO. It assumes some degree of association between...

the false discovery rate (FDR) is a method of conceptualizing the rate of type I errors in null hypothesis testing when conducting multiple comparisons...

public-order crime is defined by Siegel (2004) as "crime which involves acts that interfere with the operations of society and the ability of people to function...

supports the hypothesis that current or recent trauma may affect an individual's assessment of the more distant past, changing the experience of the past...