Why Simple Regression Models Work So Well Describing ‘Risk Behaviors’ in the USA

R Wallace and R Fullilove
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R Wallace: Public Interest Scientific Consulting Service Inc., 549 W. 123 Street, Suite 16F, New York, NY 10027, USA
R Fullilove: Columbia University School of Public Health, 600 W 168 Street, New York, NY 10032, USA

Environment and Planning A, 1999, vol. 31, issue 4, 719-734

Abstract: The generalized anger created by individual experience of marginalization in the USA makes violent behavior frequent enough to become a ‘typical’ symbol, in the information-theoretic sense, for use in communicating along the damaged social networks of oppressed communities. Simple regression models relating violence and other risk behaviors to indices of relative deprivation emerge, after some mathematical development, as a natural consequence of this underlying dynamic, described elegantly by Franz Fanon in the early 1960s.

Date: 1999
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