Author: Bodenhorn, Howard
Title: Crime and Body Weight in the Nineteenth Century: Was There a Relationship Between Brawn, Employment Opportunities and Crime?
Summary: This paper addresses the extent to which crime in the 19th century was conditioned on body weight, using data on inmates incarcerated in Tennessee and Illinois between 1831 and 1892.
Details: Cambridge, MA: National Bureau of Economic Research, 2009. 27p.
Source: Internet Resource. NBER Working Paper Series: Working Paper 15099
Year: 2009
Country: United States
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Shelf Number: 115795
Keywords:
Criminal BehaviorCriminology |
