ABSTRACT
This chapter discusses the cross-sectional relationships and focuses on the relationships for the years of 1990 and 1985, since data on important independent properties of social resources exist for these years only. The strong relationships that exist between several independent properties cause problems in analyzing the multivariate linear relationship between crime factor and these properties. The product model solutions obtained for the standardized and for the normalized versions of these variables give the same value of the crime factor. Moreover, the coefficients for the standardized variables indicate that OCCDICH of the newcomers has a rather strong effect on crime. This seems to be a reasonable explanation of the difference, which therefore lends support to the social control theory and also to the idea that local social processes affect crime. When adding aggregated micro-level interaction variables to basic variables in linear regression analysis of crime, there is some improvement of the corrected explained proportion of the variance in the crime factor.
