Daly & Wilson

Question 1

what was daly and wilsons aim?

Answer 1

To find out if homicide rates would vary as a function of local life expectancy in Chicargo , a city divided into 77 neighborhoods wit relatively stable boundaries

Question 2

what was their method?

Answer 2

a correlational study, using survey data from police records, school records and local demographic records collected by population census

Question 3

procedure?

Answer 3

examined communities in chicargo which had lower than average life expectancies, then plotted various correlations

Question 4

what was the average life expectancy ?

Answer 4

54.3 to 77.4 years

Question 5

what were the findings ?

Answer 5

found that life expectancy proved to be the best predictor of neighborhood specific homicide rates , there was a strong negative at -0.88

Question 6

what was another findings?

Answer 6

there was also a negative correlation between absenteeism from primary school and life expectancy had a correlation co-efficient at -0.5

Question 7

what was a conclusion?

Answer 7

they said this could be explained by a short-term horizon , the boys see little point in working hard at school because they do not imagine a long future for themselves while their parents don’t force to attend because they they all operate on a short time horizon. This makes them more likely to take risks and become involved in crime according to evolutionary psychology theorists