Murder Is Like a Disease (No, Really) - Slashdot40756399story Posted by Soulskill from the and-the-only-cure-is-more-cowbell dept. pigrabbitbear writes "With a homicide rate historically more than three times greater than the rest of the United States, Newark, N.J., isn't a great vacation spot. But it's a great place for a murder study (abstract). Led by April Zeoli, an assistant professor of criminal justice, a group of researchers at Michigan State University tracked homicides around Newark from 1982 to 2008, using analytic software typically used by medical researchers to track the spread of diseases. They found that "homicide clusters" in Newark, as researchers called them, spread and move throughout a city much the same way diseases do. Murders, in other words, did not surface randomly?they began in the city center and moved in 'diffusion-like processes' across the city."
Some circumstantial evidence is very strong, as when you find a trout in the milk. -- Thoreau
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