Nunley, John M.; Seals, Richard Alan; Zietz, Joachim - Department of Economics, Auburn University - 2010
Fluctuations in aggregate crime rates contrary to recent shifts in the age distribution of the U.S. population have cast doubt on the predictive power of the age-crime hypothesis. By examining a longer time horizon, back to the early 1930s,, we show that the percentage of the young population is...