The presence of sexual or physical abuse in chil dhood histories would therefore be the independent variable and type of offense committed would be the dependent variable. This scenario would presume state levels of unemployment to affect state levels of crime. This is a bit tricky. What we would ultimately have is aggregate data on police response times for several police departments. Even though the data originally came from individual incidents of crime, we are only using this data to make comparisons across jurisdictions.
Jurisdictions are therefore the units of analysis.
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