In August of this year I compiled a set of statistics on murders in Moscow, ID. I uploaded the results to Facebook, but I’ve been asked to make them publicly accessible.Though the data looks interesting, the sample size is a bit small for meaningful statistical analysis.
Eventually, I hope to include some information that compares Moscow to other cities of similar size.
In one of the images I highlight information about the “main murder victim”. After reading the articles and court cases associated with the murders, each incident had a clear target. In some cases, other individuals were murdered in the process. The gender of the target is what I am referring to when I write, “main murder victim”.
Why “biological sex” rather than “gender”? (Do you really anticipate a lot of cases in which “gender” would be a vague term?)
Also, what is the population of Moscow, and were these all murders with firearms? It would be particularly interesting to see this town juxtaposed against another small university-centered city in the non-coastal west. In fact, the difference between personal, small-town murders and impersonal (gang, theft, drugs, etc.) large-city statistics would be interesting, too, although harder to control for.
Hello Sheryl. No, I suppose using “gender” would have worked just as well and it would have had the added benefit of using fewer characters.
I intend to look for some cities/towns to use in a brief comparison. I’ll have to work a bit on that though. To be thorough, I should probably run some tests for significance when comparing. My cursory literature search indicated that Moscow is below the national average for murders in towns of it’s size. However, I did not look too far into it.
At a minimum, crime reporting isn’t even uniform. Counting and looking the murder statistics in Moscow was relatively easy because of how few occur. I can’t imagine how many crimes go unreported or are absent from any official register. The data acquisition alone would be weeks worth of work… which does sound oddly fun.