Crime and Divorce. Can one Lead to the other? Using Multilevel Mixed Models

Faisal Khamis

No 3305690, Proceedings of International Academic Conferences from International Institute of Social and Economic Sciences

Abstract: Cross-sectional and time-series studies of the influence of divorce on crime and the opposite are few in both developing and developed countries. Question is raised whether the divorce causes the crime, the opposite, or both effects are exist in Jordan.The objectives are: Investigating the causal direction of the relationship between the divorce and crime, determining whether the clustering in the divorce and crime within-governorates is exist, and whether the divorce and crime are increased or decreased over time? The study design was cross-sectional time-series analysis. The data of 12 governorates over 14 years (2000-2013) were obtained from several Jordanian Statistical Yearbooks and surveys issued by the Jordanian Statistics Department. The divorce rate (DR) and the crime rate (CR) were calculated. Multilevel mixed-effects linear regression was carried out. Three models for each of divorce and crime were estimated. Comparison between these models was explained in terms of the intra-class correlation (ICC), the proportional change in the variance of the response variable, and the deviance. The p

Keywords: Multilevel modeling; Divorce; Crime; Time; Governorate; and Intra-class correlation (search for similar items in EconPapers)
JEL-codes: A14 C10 C19 (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Pages: 1 page
Date: 2016-03
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Published in Proceedings of the Proceedings of the 21st International Academic Conference, Miami, Mar 2016, pages 217-217

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