Researching U.S. Urban Murder Rates and Group Practice of the Transcendental Meditation and TM-Sidhi Program: Evaluation of a Prospective Quasi-Experiment
Cavanaugh, Kenneth L.; Dillbeck, Michael C. (2017). Researching U.S. Urban Murder Rates and Group Practice of the Transcendental Meditation and TM-Sidhi Program: Evaluation of a Prospective Quasi-Experiment. Journal of Maharishi Vedic Research Institute, 5, 11–40.
Also: Same underlying study, separately published as catalog paper 626; not an independent replication.
A separately published version of the urban-murder research in paper 626, with a different title, journal, and pagination. It uses the same 206-city data and intervention period; it must not be presented as independent replication of paper 626.
- Year
- 2017
- Journal
- Journal of Maharishi Vedic Research Institute
- Publication type
- Journal
- Paper type
- Empirical
- Section
- Quality of Life
Findings (2)
Sociological—Reduced Crime
Reports a downward urban homicide-rate trend shift during 2007–2010 in the same quasi-experimental research as paper 626.
Transcendental Meditation and TM-Sidhi · Time Series Analysis · TM-Sidhi · Maharishi Effect
Reports a model-estimated 28.4% cumulative reduction and 4,136 fewer urban murders than forecast; these repeat the shared study results rather than adding a new sample.
Transcendental Meditation and TM-Sidhi · Time Series Analysis · TM-Sidhi · Maharishi Effect