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Do College Football Games Affect The Level Of Crime In The Local Community?, Micah Johnson
Do College Football Games Affect The Level Of Crime In The Local Community?, Micah Johnson
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On the local news channels in major college football towns, there are anecdotal stories during that detail celebratory riots that took place during or after a college football game. Few empirical studies have focused on whether there is a relationship between college football games and crime. This paper attempts to determine that relationship by exploiting the fact that college football games are played in a home stadium and an away stadium.
More specifically, the study addressed the following two questions:
Do jurisdictions in which a home football game is played differ in crime rate from those where an away game …