Apparently our intellectual seasonal cycles are completely different from our criminal tendencies. Professor Huntington, of the Foundation for the Study of Cycles, made extensive studies to discover the seasons when people read serious books, attend scientific meetings, make the highest scores on examinations, and propose the most changes to patents. In all instances, he found a spring peak and an autumn peak separated by a summer low. On the other hand, Professor Huntingtons studies indicated that June is the peak month for suicides and admissions to mental hospitals. June is also a peak month for marriages!
Possibly soaring thermometers and high humidity bring on our strange and terrifying summer actions, but police officials are not sure. There is,of course, no proof of a connection between hurnidity and murder. they say. Why murders high time should come in the summertime we really dont know.
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犯罪行为不是随机发生的,而是呈现出某些规律。在某些时间、地点、条件下,在某些人群当中,犯罪行为发生得更频繁些。也就是说,犯罪行为有其自身的周期性。几年前某份杂志这样报道说。研究人员对2400多个城镇的立案犯罪记录作了为期5年的研究,这些记录一致表明,季节变化和犯罪模式之间存在着令人惊讶的关联。
犯罪模式在长时间里鲜有变化。某些特定的罪行,比如谋杀和抢劫,是随季节、日期和发生的时间而发生变化的。一般来说,谋杀更可能发生在晚春和夏季,于7月和8月达到高峰。强奸和其他暴力犯罪也是如此。此外,谋杀不只是与季节有关,它还是一种周末犯罪行为。这种犯罪行为也常发生于夜间:62%的谋杀案是在下午6点到凌晨6点之间发生的。
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