UScrime_data {PEPBVS}

US Crime Data

Description

The dataset has been borrowed from the MASS R package and describes the effect of punishment regimes on crime rates. One explanatory variable (indicator variable for a Southern state) was removed since it was binary.

Format

This data frame contains the following columns:

M

percentage of males aged 14–24.

Ed

mean years of schooling.

Po1

police expenditure in 1960.

Po2

police expenditure in 1959.

LF

labour force participation rate.

M.F

number of males per 1000 females.

Pop

state population.

NW

number of non-whites per 1000 people.

U1

unemployment rate of urban males 14–24.

U2

unemployment rate of urban males 35–39.

GDP

gross domestic product per head.

Ineq

income inequality.

Prob

probability of imprisonment.

Time

average time served in state prisons.

y

rate of crimes in a particular category per head of population.

Source

Data from the R package MASS