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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 [