Associations Between Violent And Nonviolent Criminality: A Canonical Contingency-Table Analysis

Abstract

Frequencies of violent and nonviolent convictions among 390 adult, male offenders were cross-tabulated, dummy coded, and analyzed by canonical correlation. Though of small magnitude, a statistically significant dimension of association between violent and nonviolent criminality was obtained, and the nature of this relationship was ascertained by means of intraset and interset structure coefficients and an index of interset redundancy. The results, weakly supportive of the crime specialization hypothesis, were seen to illustrate the potential usefulness of a canonical correlational approach to the analysis of a two-way contingency table.