Chinese Film As I See It

KOREAN movie buffs associate Chi- nese film of the 1980s with Hong Kong kungfu mov- ies, acted by stars Jackie Chan and Bruce Lee; also the gangster movies by Hong Kong director John Woo, dubbed "Hong Kong noir" by Korean film critics. Korean youth, many of whom were active in stu- dent movements at the time, related strongly to the deep fraternal bond portrayed in these movies. Jackie Chan's films have been a favorite of mine since childhood, from his early kungfu flicks to more recen…     

A REEXAMINATION OF THE ETIOLOGY OF URBAN CRIME

Ecological analysis of crime rates has been a traditionally important approach to analyzing the causes of crime. Over the years, this approach has profited from the use of increasingly sophisticated data analysis techniques. A recent article in this journal on intracity crime rates offered such an analytic refinement—with the discovery of similar curvilinear relationships between both personal and property crime and customary socioeconomic predictors Such a finding for both types of crime is quite different from the results indicated in previous research. The present article reexamines comparable data on urban crime, adding further statistical and theory-based refinements to the analysis The results here show distinctive relationships for property and personal crime. This paper serves, then, to integrate careful empirical analysis into available criminogenic theory and into the conventional wisdom of ecological research.