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Solving Homicides in Rochester, New York: What Matters Most in Clearing the Case? Analysis of the Intersection of Neighborhood, Demographic, and Incident Characteristics

LoFaso, Charles Anthony
http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=osu1513184414917652

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2018, Master of Arts, Ohio State University, Sociology.
Social scientists have long observed that communities characterized by concentrated poverty and residential instability tend to have higher levels of violence and homicide. This thesis examines whether these neighborhood structural characteristics and associated social processes not only produce violence, but also impede identification and arrest of suspects in violent crime cases. Analysis of 550 homicides in Rochester, New York between 2000 to 2014 finds that only incident characteristics, and not victim or census tract characteristics, influence the odds of whether the homicide was cleared by arrest. Moreover, a qualitative analysis of homicide file narratives reveals that, even in homicides resulting from street justice or what Black (1983) termed the use of “self-help,” witnesses were cooperative in the subsequent investigation and instrumental in solving the case.
Ryan King (Advisor)
Paul Bellair (Committee Member)
Michael Vuolo (Committee Member)
44 p.
Criminology; Sociology
homicide clearance legal cynicism self-help incident characteristcs

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  • LoFaso, C. A. (2018). Solving Homicides in Rochester, New York: What Matters Most in Clearing the Case? Analysis of the Intersection of Neighborhood, Demographic, and Incident Characteristics [Master's thesis, Ohio State University]. OhioLINK Electronic Theses and Dissertations Center. http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=osu1513184414917652

    APA Style (7th edition)

  • LoFaso, Charles. Solving Homicides in Rochester, New York: What Matters Most in Clearing the Case? Analysis of the Intersection of Neighborhood, Demographic, and Incident Characteristics . 2018. Ohio State University, Master's thesis. OhioLINK Electronic Theses and Dissertations Center, http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=osu1513184414917652.

    MLA Style (8th edition)

  • LoFaso, Charles. "Solving Homicides in Rochester, New York: What Matters Most in Clearing the Case? Analysis of the Intersection of Neighborhood, Demographic, and Incident Characteristics ." Master's thesis, Ohio State University, 2018. http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=osu1513184414917652

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