John Stahura, a professor of Social Science from Purdue University, and C. Ronald Huff, a professor emeritus of Criminology, Law, and Society from Ohio State University, did a study to test if elements of both ecological and criminological theory are used to produce a set of variables which are related to crime rates. Stahura and Huff gathered their data from a sample of 252 suburbs in the years of 1960 and 1970. The two researchers focused their study on: density, age, employment specialization, geographic region, percent low income, percent Black, age composition, population growth, and 1960 and 1970 violent crime rates. Stahura and Huff’s study is similar to that of Hipp’s by both focusing on what variables affect crime rates. However, Stahura
