- Collection:
- Atlanta University and Clark Atlanta University Theses and Dissertations
- Title:
- Patterns of black homicide in Atlanta: 1979-1989, 1995
- Creator:
- Kennedy, Renee S.
- Date of Original:
- 1991-05-01
- Subject:
- Degrees, Academic
Dissertations, Academic - Location:
- United States, Georgia, Fulton County, Atlanta, 33.749, -84.38798
- Medium:
- theses
- Type:
- Text
- Format:
- application/pdf
- Description:
- Atlanta, Georgia ranks first among cities in the United States in violent crime rates and third in homicide rates. This research proposes an analysis of homicide patterns in Atlanta from 1979 through 1989, in terms of homicide rates by victim-offender relationship, race and gender of both perpetrators and victims, perpetrators' motives, weapons utilized and seasonal variation (month, day and time of homicide). Motives are classified as follows: verbal argument, emotional argument, sex related, lovers tiff, alcohol and drug, theft, and other. Homicide patterns will be analyzed by both statistical and graphic methods. Annual percent change in homicides by all afore-mentioned variables will be compared and tested for statistical significance utilizing t-test procedures. Auto-regressive (ARIMA) are employed to predict the homicide trends i.e., over the next ten year period.
- External Identifiers:
- Metadata URL:
- http://hdl.handle.net/20.500.12322/cau.td:1991_kennedy_renee_s
- Rights Holder:
- Clark Atlanta University
- Holding Institution:
- Atlanta University Center Robert W. Woodruff Library
- Rights:
-
