violent crime rates. Ekland-Olson, Kelly and Eisenberg (1992) also studied crime and unemployment. The authors investigated the relationship between crime and incarceration and unemployment in Texas, California, and the U.S., in the 1970s and 80s with a comprehensive analysis of statistical data. Comparison findings showed that increases in repetitious property offences were related to economic conditions such as unemployment.
Additional theories explored were found in a study by Partridge and Rickman (1997), who studied dispersion of US state unemployment rates with a focus on crime and other factors. A comprehensive review of U.S. statistics showed that unemployment is linked to factors such as residence length, international immigration, and education. This study failed to show a direct relationship between these factors and crime. Reith (1996) investigated the relationship between unemployment stress and the popularity of crime drama on TV as a possible factor in crime rates. Findings however, showed no positive relationship.
Chamlin and Cochran (2000) studied race riots and robbery arrests. The use of a time-series analyses, a rigorous quasi-experimental design, investigated effects of a riot on monthly arrests. It was concluded that since arrest rates increased only slightly and were followed by normal rates, racial conflict was not a factor in increased crime rates. Ralston (1999) studied economy and race and their relationship to property crime rates in the United States, from 1958 to 1995. Appropriately, a Beach-MacKinnon Full Maximum-Likelihood FGLS AR1 Method was used to show differences in relationships by race. Significant positive relationships were found between property crime rate changes and inflation, cyclical unemployment, frictional unemployment, and interactions of white arrest rates and technological unemployment.
Grant and Martinez (1997) studied crime and unemployment with class linkages. ...