Article Title
Document Type
Article
Publication Date
1965
Keywords
Mental illness; Crime and weather
Abstract
ABSTRACT - A simple count of disturbed incidents in the mentally ill and total radio transmissions of the Minneapolis Police Departmenf were collected daily over a six-month period. These were correlated with calendar time, temperature, humidity, and barometric pressure for the same period. Separate comparisons were made of all these measures for December 1959 with those of other Decembers. All the weather variables correlated linearly and significantly with the behavior v.ariables; temperature and humidity, positively; barometric pressure negatively. Calendar time for the half year correlated linearly and negatively. December 1959 had a higher crime and mental disturbance rate than other Decembers; this was accompanied by higher temperature and humidity.
First Page
223
Last Page
226
Recommended Citation
Lucero, R. J.,
Brantner, J. P.,
Brown, B. W.,
&
Olson, G. W.
(1965).
Weather, Crime, and Mental Illness.
Journal of the Minnesota Academy of Science, Vol. 32 No.3, 223-226.
Retrieved from https://digitalcommons.morris.umn.edu/jmas/vol32/iss3/14
Primo Type
Article