TO: Students in CJ 330
FROM: R. B. Taylor
DATE: 9/29/99
RE: Questions on LaFree Chapters 7 & 8

What are the attractions of arguments connecting crime and economics? (114-116)

What are the differences between absolute and relative economic stress? What are indicators for each? Which appears more closely linked to crime? (119 - on)

What were the economic changes in the late postwar period? (126 - on)

What is happening with racial differences in the economic changes of this period?

BTW: the interquartile range or IQR, used by LaFree as a measure of relative economic inequality is defined as: the income range that spans the middle of the population - the gap between those who score at the 25th percentile for income, and those who score at the 75th percentile.

How does the legitimacy of family institutions regulate crime? (137 on)

How have economic changes encouraged a "depopulation" of the family? (144 on)