UScrime

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.

datasets

Functions and datasets to support Venables and Ripley,
"Modern Applied Statistics with S" (4th edition, 2002).

Brian Ripley

MASS

Support Functions and Datasets for Venables and Ripley's MASS

Bill Venables

Kurt Hornik

Albrecht Gebhardt

David Firth

UScrime function

This data frame contains the following columns:<dl class="dl-horizontal">
 <dt><code>M</code></dt><dd>percentage of males aged 14--24.</dd>
 <dt><code>So</code></dt><dd>indicator variable for a Southern state.</dd>
 <dt><code>Ed</code></dt><dd>mean years of schooling.</dd>
 <dt><code>Po1</code></dt><dd>police expenditure in 1960.</dd>
 <dt><code>Po2</code></dt><dd>police expenditure in 1959.</dd>
 <dt><code>LF</code></dt><dd>labour force participation rate.</dd>
 <dt><code>M.F</code></dt><dd>number of males per 1000 females.</dd>
 <dt><code>Pop</code></dt><dd>state population.</dd>
 <dt><code>NW</code></dt><dd>number of non-whites per 1000 people.</dd>
 <dt><code>U1</code></dt><dd>unemployment rate of urban males 14--24.</dd>
 <dt><code>U2</code></dt><dd>unemployment rate of urban males 35--39.</dd>
 <dt><code>GDP</code></dt><dd>gross domestic product per head.</dd>
 <dt><code>Ineq</code></dt><dd>income inequality.</dd>
 <dt><code>Prob</code></dt><dd>probability of imprisonment.</dd>
 <dt><code>Time</code></dt><dd>average time served in state prisons.</dd>
 <dt><code>y</code></dt><dd>rate of crimes in a particular category per head of population.</dd>
 </dl>

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The Effect of Punishment Regimes on Crime Rates — UScrime

This data frame contains the following columns:<dl class='dl-horizontal'>
 <dt><code>M</code></dt><dd>percentage of males aged 14--24.</dd>
 <dt><code>So</code></dt><dd>indicator variable for a Southern state.</dd>
 <dt><code>Ed</code></dt><dd>mean years of schooling.</dd>
 <dt><code>Po1</code></dt><dd>police expenditure in 1960.</dd>
 <dt><code>Po2</code></dt><dd>police expenditure in 1959.</dd>
 <dt><code>LF</code></dt><dd>labour force participation rate.</dd>
 <dt><code>M.F</code></dt><dd>number of males per 1000 females.</dd>
 <dt><code>Pop</code></dt><dd>state population.</dd>
 <dt><code>NW</code></dt><dd>number of non-whites per 1000 people.</dd>
 <dt><code>U1</code></dt><dd>unemployment rate of urban males 14--24.</dd>
 <dt><code>U2</code></dt><dd>unemployment rate of urban males 35--39.</dd>
 <dt><code>GDP</code></dt><dd>gross domestic product per head.</dd>
 <dt><code>Ineq</code></dt><dd>income inequality.</dd>
 <dt><code>Prob</code></dt><dd>probability of imprisonment.</dd>
 <dt><code>Time</code></dt><dd>average time served in state prisons.</dd>
 <dt><code>y</code></dt><dd>rate of crimes in a particular category per head of population.</dd>
 </dl>

UScrime: The Effect of Punishment Regimes on Crime Rates

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