NCJ Number
86467
Journal
Multivariate Behavioral Research Volume: 16 Dated: (April 1981) Pages: 237-241
Date Published
1981
Length
6 pages
Annotation
Frequencies of violent and nonviolent convictions among 390 adult, male offenders were cross-tabulated, dummy coded, and analyzed by canonical correction.
Abstract
Though of small magnitude, a statistically significant dimension of association between violent and nonviolent criminality was obtained, and the nature of this relationship was ascertained by means of intraset and interset structure coefficients and an index of interset redundancy. The results, weakly supportive of the crime specialization hypothesis, were seen to illustrate the potential usefulness of a canonical correlational approach to the analysis of a two-way contingency table. (Author abstract)