strucchange (version 1.1-2)

BostonHomicide: Youth Homicides in Boston

Description

Data about the number of youth homicides in Boston during the `Boston Gun Project'---a policing initiative aiming at lowering homicide victimization among young people in Boston.

Usage

data(BostonHomicide)

source

Cooper et al. (2001), Figure 1 and Table I.

Details

The `Boston Gun Project' is a policing initiative aiming at lowering youth homicides in Boston. The project began in early 1995 and implemented the so-called `Operation Ceasefire' intervention which began in the late spring of 1996.

More information is available at:

http://www.ksg.harvard.edu/criminaljustice/research/bgp.htm

References

Cooper S.J., Piehl A.M., Braga A.A., Kennedy D.M. (2001), Testing for Structural Breaks in the Evaluation of Programs, Unpublished Paper, John F. Kennedy School of Government.

Kennedy D.M., Piehl A.M., Braga A.A. (1996), Youth Violence in Boston: Gun Markets, Serious Youth Offenders, and a Use-Reduction Strategy, Law and Contemporary Problems, 59, 147-183.

Examples

data(BostonHomicide)

fm <- glm(homicides ~ population + season, data = BostonHomicide,
          family = poisson)
anova(fm, test = "F")