RT Article
T1 Unemployment and Crime Rate Fluctuations: A Comment on Greenberg
JF Journal of quantitative criminology
VO 17
IS 4
SP 329
OP 342
A1 Cantor, David
A2 Land, Kenneth C. 1942-
LA English
YR 2001
UL https://krimdok.uni-tuebingen.de/Record/1767143478
AB Several ways in which the specification of the Cantor and Land (1985) conceptual model of transient relationships between aggregate unemployment and crime rate fluctuations differs from that of Greenberg (2001) are noted. It follows that we do not accept Greenberg's Eq. (1) as a valid theoretical representation of the processes of interest. We briefly review the substantive context from which our investigation began in the mid-1980s. We also review the time series properties of our model and of the aggregate unemployment and crime rates used in its estimation. We note how the time series behavior of various crime rates determines which parts of the Cantor and Land model are and are not likely to be estimated as statistically significant for those series. We conclude with some comments on the limitations of aggregate time series research designs for testing the behavioral hypotheses used to generate expected relationships between aggregate unemployment and crime rates and suggest some alternative research designs.
K1 Time Series Analysis
K1 Crime rates
K1 unemployment rates
DO 10.1023/A:1012585603639