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Imitative violence in the real world: A reanalysis of homicide rates following championship prize fights

✍ Scribed by Todd Q. Miller; Linda Heath; John R. Molcan; Bernard L. Dugoni


Book ID
102676225
Publisher
John Wiley and Sons
Year
1991
Tongue
English
Weight
892 KB
Volume
17
Category
Article
ISSN
0096-140X

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✦ Synopsis


reported that the homicide rate increases on the third day after heavyweight championship prize fights. The present paper reports a reanalysis of Phillips's data using more sophisticated statistical techniques and examining several theoretically important variables not discussed by Phillips or his critics. Using a conservative analysis strategy, our results suggest that the increases in homicides reported by Phillips were not a methodological artifact as suggested by Baron and Reiss [