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GDP growth vs. criminal phenomena: data mining of Japan 1926–2013

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The aim of this article is to inquire about potential relationship between change of crime rates and change of gross domestic product (GDP) growth rate, based on historical statistics of Japan. This national-level study used a dataset covering 88 years (1926–2013) and 13 attributes. The data were processed with the self-organizing map (SOM), separation power checked by our ScatterCounter method, assisted by other clustering methods and statistical methods for obtaining comparable results. The article is an exploratory application of the SOM in research of criminal phenomena through processing of multivariate data. The research confirmed previous findings that SOM was able to cluster efficiently the present data and characterize these different clusters. Other machine learning methods were applied to ensure clusters computed with SOM. The correlations obtained between GDP and other attributes were mostly weak, with a few of them interesting.

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The second author is thankful for the Finnish Cultural Foundation Pirkanmaa Regional Fund for the support.

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Li, X., Joutsijoki, H., Laurikkala, J. et al. GDP growth vs. criminal phenomena: data mining of Japan 1926–2013. AI & Soc 33, 261–274 (2018). https://doi.org/10.1007/s00146-017-0722-7

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