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Abstract

This research project examines the relationship between property crime and economic inequalities from counties 49 counties in California from 2010 to 2012. We choose the data less a decade, it is easier for us to forecasting than older data. First, we investigate the correlation between poverty rate and property crime rate. Second, we study the rela­ tionship between property crime rate and our explanatory variables that included poverty rate, foreclosure rate, welfare receive rate, unemployment rate, and gang membership rate, medium income. My research contains different type of variables and will exam which one will make impact to the property crime rate. We eliminate insignificant vari­ ables, one at a time by analyzing adjusted R square , P-value, and T-test, and then run the regression analysis with relevant variables. Our results prove that poverty rate, medium income, foreclosure rate and welfare receive rate have statistically significant effect one property crime rate.