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This chapter details the results of the multiple analyses conducted in the previous chapter, how the research questions were answered, and comprehensive explanations of each of the results, tables, and incorporated illustrations. This includes detailed statistics for each of the 77 Chicago community areas, as well as group-based trajectory analysis which suggests that homicide consistency in Chicago community areas is not the norm.
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With finite populations the upper bound of the Gini coefficient is 1 − 1/n (Allison (1978), where n is the total number of units in the sample. Even when considering the generalized Gini coefficient, this only reduces the upper bound by a maximum of 1/396 (the reciprocal of the number of homicides in 1965, the year with the fewest homicides in the sample) – less than 3 hundredths – in this sample.
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Wheeler, A.P., Herrmann, C.R., Block, R.L. (2021). Analysis and Results. In: Micro-Place Homicide Patterns in Chicago. SpringerBriefs in Criminology(). Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-61446-1_5
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