New research connects heat, weekends with aggressive crimes and shootings in Chicago

Thursday, October 25, 2018 - 08:30 in Psychology & Sociology

It happens all too often each summer: Yet another litany of weekend shootings in Chicago appears in the news. A new Arizona State University and Purdue University research study examines this phenomenon. In it, the authors sifted through data on almost 6 million reported crimes in Chicago between 2001 to 2014 to try to tease […]

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