Question: Researchers and policy makers are interested in identifying the factors that influence violent crime in the United States and whether or not these are the same across different parts of the country. Two factors are being discussed: poverty and whether the death penalty is legal. Therefore, you have been asked to conduct a study to answer the following research questions:

Does poverty influence violent crime among US states?

To answer these questions, the concepts have been conceptualized/operationalized as:

• Violent crime = the violent crime rate per (100,000) residents in 2014
  • The data came from the UCR and includes all violent crimes reported to the police
• Death penalty legalization = whether or not a state has the death penalty
  • This information was pulled from BJS
  • Coded 0 = no, 1 = yes
• Poverty = the percent of the population in each state that lived below the poverty line in 2014
  • This information came from the U.S. Census Bureau
• Region of the County = region of the country as defined by the U.S. Census Bureau
  • Four regions coded as:
    • 1 = North
    • 2 = Midwest
    • 3 = West
    • 4 = South

This means that you will need four variables: region of the country, death penalty, violent crime rate (per 100,000), and the percent of the population living below the poverty line.

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