Hot Years and Serious and Deadly Assault : Empirical Tests ' of the Heat

'I\vo archival studies examined the relation between year-to-year shifts in temperature and violent d p perty r r s h ited S t s. udy I xamined helation b ween nnual v r ge t ature e y ars 1950-1995. Asp ct d, p si v t t perarriou dl s lt s v , ft timies, l ar y r, verty d latio age effect w r s a i tically co roll . Pr p t c i w r l t l r temperature. Study 2 examined the relation between the average number of hot days (0!:90"F) and h s z osua u r cre e violen e e y s 1 50-1 95. As x e ed, pos tive relation was observed between number of hot days and magnitude of the summer effect, even after i ri s li r f ct s ti ticall c ntr ll . F r p e ty rim , hu m r ff ct s la d t b r o y .