{"id":875,"date":"2012-09-04T10:00:00","date_gmt":"2012-09-04T10:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.emlitofnote.com\/?p=875"},"modified":"2016-08-01T08:58:25","modified_gmt":"2016-08-01T15:58:25","slug":"its-too-hot-to-fight-other-fables","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.emlitofnote.com\/?p=875","title":{"rendered":"It&#8217;s Too Hot To Fight &#038; Other Fables"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span style=\"font-family: inherit;\">There&#8217;s a mythology regarding temperature and violent crime \u2013 both increase in tandem up until a certain point, at which it becomes &#8220;too warm&#8221;. &nbsp;This study, a retrospective analysis of violent crime from a six-year period in Dallas, TX, generally confirms the increase in violence as the temperature increases.<\/span><br \/><span style=\"font-family: inherit;\"><br \/><\/span><span style=\"font-family: inherit;\">The authors additionally propose, however, a curvilinear relationship based on the data that interprets an inflection point at 80-89 degrees a bit aggressively, considering they only have one data point above 80-89 with which to define the further trend. &nbsp;The absolute differences between total numbers of violent assaults in each temperature bracket are small enough, it&#8217;s a little hard to confidently say there&#8217;s a point at which it becomes too hot for violent crime. &nbsp;It makes sense, of course, but that&#8217;s more editorializing.<\/span><br \/><span style=\"font-family: inherit;\"><br \/><\/span><span style=\"font-family: inherit;\">Perhaps they could attempt to externally validate these findings in Iraq \u2013 which seems awfully hot and violent. &nbsp;They also note there is a strong correlation between temperature and hours of daylight \u2013 but it seems as though that&#8217;d be rather difficult to control for one or the other.<\/span><br \/><span style=\"font-family: inherit;\"><br \/><\/span><span style=\"font-family: inherit;\">And, tying this entire issue into climate change is another unusual matter entirely&#8230;.<\/span><br \/><span style=\"font-family: inherit;\"><br \/><\/span><span style=\"font-family: inherit;\">&#8220;Temperature and Violent Crime in Dallas, Texas: Relationships and Implications of Climate Change&#8221;<\/span><br \/><a href=\"http:\/\/www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov\/pmc\/articles\/PMC3415828\/\" target=\"_blank\"><span style=\"font-family: inherit;\">http:\/\/www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov\/pmc\/articles\/PMC3415828\/<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n\n<div class=\"twitter-share\"><a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet?via=emlitofnote\" class=\"twitter-share-button\">Tweet<\/a><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>There&#8217;s a mythology regarding temperature and violent crime \u2013 both increase in tandem up until a certain point, at which it becomes &#8220;too warm&#8221;. &nbsp;This study, a retrospective analysis of violent crime from a six-year period in Dallas, TX, generally confirms the increase in violence as the temperature increases.The authors additionally propose, however, a curvilinear &hellip; 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