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Effect of Police Employment on Crime

NCJ Number
91195
Journal
Criminology Volume: 21 Issue: 3 Dated: (August 1983) Pages: 375-394
Date Published
1983
Author(s)
D F Greenberg; R C Kessler; C Loftin
Length
20 pages
Annotation
The effects of police employment on index violent crime rates and index property crime rates are studied using a maximum-likelihood technique to estimate two-wave multivariate panel models.
Abstract

Separate analyses are carried out for a sample of 252 U.S. suburbs and for a sample of 269 U.S. cities for the years 1960 and 1970. (Publisher abstract)

Date Published: January 1, 1983