UScrime: The Effect of Punishment Regimes on Crime Rates
Description
Criminologists are interested in the effect of punishment regimes on
crime rates. This has been studied using aggregate data on 47 states
of the USA for 1960 given in this data frame. The variables seem to
have been re-scaled to convenient numbers.
Usage
UScrime
Arguments
source
Ehrlich, I. (1973) Participation in illegitimate activities: a
theoretical and empirical investigation.
Journal of Political Economy, 81, 521--565.
Vandaele, W. (1978) Participation in illegitimate activities: Ehrlich
revisited. In Deterrence and Incapacitation,
eds A. Blumstein, J. Cohen and D. Nagin, pp. 270--335.
US National Academy of Sciences.
References
Venables, W. N. and Ripley, B. D. (1999)
Modern Applied Statistics with S-PLUS. Third
Edition. Springer.