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FIGURE 12. CRIME AND UPWARD LIGHT ENERGY LOSS PER<br />

PERSON IN CANADIAN CITIES<br />

CRIME RATE %<br />

9<br />

8<br />

7<br />

6<br />

5<br />

4<br />

3<br />

2<br />

1<br />

0<br />

y = 0.0333x + 4.678<br />

r 2 = 0.2242<br />

179<br />

0 20 40 60 80 100<br />

ANNUAL LIGHT ENERGY LOSS PER PERSON, GW.h<br />

Figure 12. <strong>Crime</strong> rate in 1999 for nine cities in Canada, plotted against annual upward light<br />

energy loss per person. Light loss data are from Isobe <strong>and</strong> Hamamura (1998). <strong>Crime</strong> data for<br />

1999 have been calculated from 2000 data from Statistics Canada (2001). Numerical data are<br />

given in Table 7. No corrections are made for snow cover. The slope of the regression line is<br />

not significantly different from zero.

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