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That comment prompted the Houston Matters team to wonder how much murder rates correspond to the seasons here – are there more or fewer homicides when it's really hot out? And what, if anything, can we do about it?
We talk with two guests: Mitchel Roth, a professor of criminal justice and criminology at Sam Houston State University; and Luis Salinas, a professor of sociology at the University of Houston.
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