Racial similarity in the relationship between poverty and homicide rates: Comparing retransformed coefficients.

Criminologists have shown great interest in comparing the strength of the relationship between poverty and violent crime for whites and blacks. The present paper argues that the standard approach of comparing race-specific coefficients from logarithmic metric OLS and/or Poisson-based regressions has...

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Bibliographic Details
Main Authors: Hannon, Lance., Knapp, Peter., DeFina, Robert.
Format: Villanova Faculty Authorship
Language:English
Published: 2005
Online Access:http://ezproxy.villanova.edu/login?url=https://digital.library.villanova.edu/Item/vudl:176711