NCJ Number
81842
Journal
Sociological Focus Volume: 10 Issue: 2 Dated: (April 1977) Pages: 199-207
Date Published
1977
Length
9 pages
Annotation
Among 130 large U.S. cities, strong support is found for Turk's (1973) view of relations between various collective needs and subsequent supplies. That such relations reflect the availability of linkage within the city -- as Turk holds they do -- is strongly suggested here when per capita known violent crime and per capita police spending are seen, respectively, as measures of need and supply.
Abstract
The positive correlation between these two rates is always stronger among high linkage than among low linkage cities, whichever of five indices is used to measure linkage. Evidence is cited to justify viewing known violent crime as casually prior to police spending, rather than vice versa. Controlling the effects of five potentially confounding variables fails to disturb the findings. (Publisher's abstract)