Citation

Lundman RJ, Myers M. Homicide Stud. 2012; 16(1): 23-40.

Copyright

(Copyright © 2012, SAGE Publishing)

DOI

10.1177/1088767911428814

PMID

unavailable

Abstract

This research examines four operationalizations of homicide clearances at two time points for 816 homicides in Columbus, Ohio. Our goals are to answer two questions: (a) Does how a homicide clearance is operationalized affect explanations of homicide clearances? (b) Do Time 1 explanations of homicide clearances change when Time 2 homicide clearances are part of the analysis? The data show that how a homicide clearance is operationalized does not affect explanations of homicide clearances, with one exception. The data also show that adding Time 2 clearances does not change explanations of homicide clearances.

Language: en