Washington has a poverty rate that stands at 15.5, in contrast to the national average of 15.1. Historically, a direct correlation has been observed between poverty rates and crime stats. Higher poverty rates have led to higher crime rates, while lower poverty rates have led to a reduction in...
Murders in the United States were down 11.6% in 2023, according to statistics released by the FBI Monday morning. Themurder ratewent down from 6.2 per 100,000 people in 2022 to 5.7 per 100,000 people in 2023. Violent crime,which is one of the top issues for voters in the presidential ...
The final sample size of 936 allows us to detect victimization rates reliably (ie, distinguish them from 0) when the base rate in the general population is 1.0% or greater with a power of 0.8. The mean ± SD age in the sample was 42.4 ± 10.6 years (median = 42 years); 51.6% were...
violent crime, the robbery rate is consistently related to higher levels of perceived crime in the tract, whereas it appears a structural shift occurred in the mid-1980s in which aggravated assault and murder rates now impact perceptions of crime, even when taking into account the robbery rate....
(1962) ‘Economic Welfare and Allocation of Resources for Invention’, in National Bureau Committee for Economic Research, The Rate and Direction of Inventive Activity: Economic and Social Factors (Princeton, NJ: Princeton University Press for the Nat. Bureau of Econ. Res.). Google Scholar ...
Results Two-fifths (41.2%) of children and youth experienced a physical assault in the last year, and 1 in 10 (10.1%) experienced an assault-related injury. Two percent experienced sexual assault or sexual abuse in the last year, but the rate was 10.7% for girls aged 14 to 17 years. ...
Nobody knows what the actual crime rate is in America but everybody knows it’s too high. The two principal ways of measuring crime are surprisingly flawed, yet we pay obeisance to the headlines trumpeting still another alarming increase, and we should. The rises are real even if the full...
A voluminous empirical literature explains trade by a number of factors including: (i) exchange rates and their volatility; (ii) currency unions (Glick and Rose, 2002; Baldwin and Taglioni, 2007) and exchange rate regimes (Baxter and Kouparitsas, 2006); (iii) factor endowments and product ...
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The weighted AAPOR cumulative response rate for this study was 8.6%. See Online Appendix, Sect. 2.1 for detailed demographic characteristics of the sample as well as sample size per condition. Full regression tables for the main results are displayed in the Online Appendix, Sect. 2.4. ...