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Knowledge about homicide offenders and victims is dependent on the sources of information used and on the geographic location. This volume concerns homicide offenders and victims in the Pittsburgh Youth Study, a longitudinal study started in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania (see Chap. 2) in 1987.
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Analyses of Pittsburgh and Allegheny County were carried out up to 2007 by the second author using data available at the Allegheny County Department of Health (see Dalton, Yonas, Warren, & Sturman, 2009).
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Note that the numbers in Fig. 3.2 are not fully comparable because of different observation periods.
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This implies that the analysis does not include offenses that might have occurred in the East of Pennsylvania or in another state.
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The Annie E. Casey Foundation describes severely distressed neighborhoods as those that have at least three of four high-risk criteria: high poverty, high percentage of female-headed families, high percentage of high school dropouts, and high percentage of working-age males unattached to the workforce. These criteria were used to determine the degree to which a homicide victim’s neighborhood of residence was distressed; 27 communities within Allegheny County warranted this designation.
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This is based on the minimum of the range of the sentence (e.g., a sentence of 13–27 years).
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Also based on the minimum sentence.
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Loeber, R., Dalton, E., Farrington, D.P. (2011). Homicide Offenders and Victims in the USA, Pennsylvania, Pittsburgh, and the Pittsburgh Youth Study. In: Young Homicide Offenders and Victims. Longitudinal Research in the Social and Behavioral Sciences: An Interdisciplinary Series. Springer, New York, NY. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4419-9949-8_3
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