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Heat brings out the...

Well here lately in the great southwest of Arizona, heat and humidity have been mashing together. By doing that outside weather can be pretty nasty and not the best. With that said calls at work have also been a little bit more interesting. People have been a lot more dangerous to other people which in turns dangerous towards me.

Its funny people can always blame their moods on the weather and here lately it seem to correlate. The weather still does not give people the right to act out as they are but it is still an interesting thing to look at.

So I decided that I was going to use my degree for once, you know that really expensive paper that I worked 5 years for and spent 35K on and used that knowledge to look up studies. Before I explored that this was my theory on the whole thing.

Hot Weather = Violent Crimes. The longer the hot weather progresses the more Violent crimes well increase.
As far as non violent crimes, I.E. larceny and vandalism, probably does increase, but not at such a steep rate like violent crimes.

I think colder weather decreases violent crimes but I do believe non violent crimes increase.

Know remember these are all of top of my mind. No Scientific Research Where Conducted for these THEORY'S!

 So after reading one article I had found that there was some correlation with violent crimes and heat, as far as cold temperatures no studies were done. I also noted that in the one article I did read it did not provide enough of a differentiation between warm and hot temperatures to show that hot weather caused more non violent crimes.

What I really learned is I still think this could be a really good research item for law enforcement organizations in hot weather areas and possible all areas. Now if only I wasn't so lazy outside of work and drew a plan to do this.

Here is the link to the article read: Temperature and Aggression: Effects on Quarterly, Yearly, and City Rates of Violent and Nonviolent Crime

Here is the reference information
Anderson, C.A. (1987). Temperature and aggression: Effects on quarterly, yearly, and city rates of violent and nonviolent crime.Journal of Personality and Social Psychology, 52(6), 1161-1173.

 PS, yes in order to get my degree I had to read hundreds of those papers and figure out what they meant... it was sooooo fun...

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