Patterns of Crime in Canadian Cities :  A Multivariate Statistical Analysis

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Table of Contents

• Executive Summary
• Section 1. Introduction
• Section 2. Methodology
  • Table 1. Distribution of Cities in this Study
  • Table 2. Offence Categories
• Section 3. Components of Crime
  • Table 3. Factor Loadings of the 4 Crime Components
• Section 4. Crime Patterns of Individual Cities
• Section 5. Crime Profiles for Different Regions
  • Table 4. Results of Discriminant Analysis of 4 Geographical Regions
  • Table 5. Average Factor Scores of the 4 Geographical Regions
• Section 6. Crime Profiles for Different City Sizes
  • Table 6. Results of Discriminant Analysis of 4 City Size Classes
  • Table 7. Average Factor Scores of the 4 City Size Classes
• Section 7. Summary and Policy Implications
  • Table 8. Summary of Crimes by the Two Classification Schemes
• APPENDICES
  • Appendix 1. An Illustration on the Difficulty of Describing a Crime Pattern
  • Appendix 2. Factor Scores for 4 Crime Components of 600 Cities
  • Appendix 3. Factor Score Percentiles for 4 Crime Components of 600 Cities
  • Appendix 4. Reclassified Cities Based on the Regional Classification Scheme
  • Appendix 5. Reclassified Cities Based on the City Size Classification Scheme
  • Appendix 6. Mean Crime Rates by City Size (per 100,000 population)

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