The Region - News from June 10, 1985
Restaurant workers, musicians, building managers, news carriers and recreation or amusement park workers are the most likely victims of crime, Marcus Felson, a USC associate professor of sociology, and two others have concluded after a study of nine recent annual National Crime Surveys. They rated 246 occupations and found that bank tellers, opticians, clergy and engineers have the safest jobs. Co-writers of the report were Richard Block of Loyola University and Carolyn Block of the Illinois Law Enforcement Commission.
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