Relative and Absolute Deprivation's Relationship With Violent Crime in the United States: Testing an Interaction Effect Between Income Inequality and Disadvantage
Relative and Absolute Deprivation's Relationship With Violent Crime in the United States: Testing an Interaction Effect Between Income Inequality and Disadvantage
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DOI：
10.1177/0011128717709246
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发表时间：
2018-04-01
影响因子：
2.1
通讯作者：
Watts, Stephen J.
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作者：
Burraston, Bert;McCutcheon, James C.;Watts, Stephen J.
相对剥夺和绝对剥夺都对犯罪产生影响。虽然这两个概念往往被视为单独的，一些学者认为，这两个可能是互补的。目前的研究通过检验收入不平等和处境不利之间的相互作用，评估相对贫困和绝对贫困的影响是否在统计上对暴力犯罪产生相互作用。使用来自美国各县的数据，分层线性模型（HLM）回归模型显示，相对和绝对剥夺预测暴力犯罪率之间存在显着的相互作用。这种相互作用的曲线图表明，当绝对剥夺程度较高时，高度不平等县的暴力行为少于中度不平等县。这一发现的含义进行了讨论。
Relative deprivation and absolute deprivation both have effects on crime. Although these two concepts are often treated as separate, some scholarship has suggested that the two may be complementary. The current study assesses whether the effects of relative and absolute deprivation interact statistically in their effect on violent crime by testing an interaction effect between income inequality and disadvantage. Using data from U.S. counties, hierarchical linear modeling (HLM) regression models show that there is a significant interaction between relative and absolute deprivation predicting violent crime rates. The plot of this interaction shows that when absolute deprivation is high, there is less violence in high inequality counties than in counties with medium levels of inequality. The implication of this finding is discussed.