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Measuring the Compounding Effects of Income Inequality, Poverty, and Race on Crime

Walsh, Edward
http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=walshhonors1619598095784731

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2021, Bachelor of Arts, Walsh University, Honors.
The nature of this study was to investigate the nature of indicators of crime to each other. Of the many possible indicators of criminality three were chosen: income inequality, poverty, and racial makeup. It was hypothesized that each of these variables would have a significant correlation to criminality. The theory of Hyper Disadvantage was then used as a theoretical framework to hypothesize that racial identity would moderate the effect of poverty to crime and income inequality to crime. Eighty Metropolitan Statistical Areas (MSAs) were chosen from the 2018 American Community Survey conducted by the US Census Bureau measuring poverty, income inequality, and racial identity. Then corresponding rates of violent and property crime from the 2018 Unified Crime Report conducted by the Federal Bureau of Investigation were measured. Bivariate regression was done to highlight each variable's individual correlation with criminality. Multivariate regression was then conducted to see if race had a moderating effect on these relationships. The results found only poverty as having a significant correlation with criminality. Furthermore, racial identity did not have a significant moderating effect on any of the variables.
Laci Fiala, Ph.D. (Advisor)
William Davis, Ph.D. (Advisor)
Criminology; Demographics; Legal Studies; Sociology

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  • Walsh, E. (2021). Measuring the Compounding Effects of Income Inequality, Poverty, and Race on Crime [Undergraduate thesis, Walsh University]. OhioLINK Electronic Theses and Dissertations Center. http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=walshhonors1619598095784731

    APA Style (7th edition)

  • Walsh, Edward. Measuring the Compounding Effects of Income Inequality, Poverty, and Race on Crime. 2021. Walsh University, Undergraduate thesis. OhioLINK Electronic Theses and Dissertations Center, http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=walshhonors1619598095784731.

    MLA Style (8th edition)

  • Walsh, Edward. "Measuring the Compounding Effects of Income Inequality, Poverty, and Race on Crime." Undergraduate thesis, Walsh University, 2021. http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=walshhonors1619598095784731

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