Appropriate regression test apart from MLR for crime data?

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thanks in advance. I'm looking to run some statistical methods to find the correlation of crime rates to crime factors. I know about MLR, which is pretty simple to run in SPSS, but what are the other appropriate tests that can be run on this type of data? I've scaled the crime numbers to the population for each year, and converted every factor data to rates. I'd ideally like to run something in SPSS, however if needs be I could use R. So far I've looked at hierarchical and stepwise regression in SPSS, and quantile regression in R. Any other suggestions would be much appreciated!