Citation

McPheters LR, Stronge WB. J. Crim. Justice 1974; 2(4): 329-344.

Copyright

(Copyright © 1974, Elsevier Publishing)

DOI

10.1016/0047-2352(74)90095-6

PMID

unavailable

Abstract

This paper applies spectral analysis to data on reported crimes for a medium-sized city. The objective is to examine certain aspects of the statistical properties of crime data, as well as to illustrate the utility of the spectral-analytic method for criminal justice research. A discussion of the theoretical underpinnings of the spectral analysis technique is provided through analogy with familiar least squares regression methods. Both spectral and cross-spectral analysis are then employed to test selected hypotheses concerning the data.