Homicide Arrest Trends and the Impact of Demographic Changes on a Set of U.S. Central Cities (From Trends, Risks, and Interventions in Lethal Violence: Proceedings of the Third Annual Spring Symposium of the Homicide Research Working Group, P 99-113, 1995, Carolyn Block and Richard Block, eds.)

• NCJ Number: 159897
• Author(s): R Chilton
• Date Published: 1995
• Length: 15 pages
• Sponsoring Agency: Office of Justice Programs (OJP)
• Sale Source: National Institute of Justice/NCJRS
• Publication Type: Research (Applied/Empirical)
• Language: English
• Country: United States of America
• Note: *This document is currently unavailable from NCJRS. NIJ Research Report, See NCJ-154254 for complete document.

Annotation

This paper analyzes the impact of demographic changes from 1960 to 1990 on homicide rates on 40 major U.S. central cities.

Abstract

Data were collected from police reports on arrest and offenses in each of the 40 central cities. Following separate analyses, the data for the cities were combined and analyzed as a set to determine changes in arrest and offense rates. In 1990, this set of 40 cities contained 14 percent of the U.S. population, but accounted for 44 percent of homicides known to the police and 55 percent of all reported arrests for homicide. Age- and race- specific analyses explain only a relatively small part of the increase in homicide arrests from 1960 to 1970 and from 1980 to 1990, but are still useful in the examination of urban crime trends. 4 tables, 3 figures, and 3 references