Citation

Barnett A, Essenfeld E, Kleitman DJ. J. Crim. Justice 1980; 8(6): 379-385.

Copyright

(Copyright © 1980, Elsevier Publishing)

DOI

10.1016/0047-2352(80)90113-0

PMID

unavailable

Abstract

We examine homicide data from fifty of the largest U.S. cities for the years 1976-1977 and, in particular, compare them to similar data for 1971-1972. The results reinforce earlier predictions that one in seventy urban residents born this decade will ultimately be murdered. However, the dispersion of murder risk as a function of race, sex, and city has apparently dropped considerably in the last few years.