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Article: Corporal Punishment and Other Formative Experiences Associated with Violent Crimes
- Article from:
- The Journal of Psychohistory
- Article date:
- July 1, 2007
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CopyrightCopyright Association for Psychohistory, Inc. Summer 2007. Provided by ProQuest LLC. (Hide copyright information)
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PRIOR RESEARCH ON VIOLENT CRIMES
Frequency of violent crimes by individuals has been measured in a sample of diverse societies. Murdock and White (1969)1 selected a world sample of 186 societies, each linguistically and geographically separated from the others. Ember and Ember (1992)2 applied to this sample a collection of ordinal scales on frequency of warfare and related measures. Two of the related measures are frequency of assault and frequency of homicide by individuals, rated on an ordinal scale of eight categories.
Barry3 measured frequency of violent crimes by adding the ratings on frequency of assault and frequency of homicide. The new measure was obtained on 102 of the 186 ...