Homicide Rates
Editorial: ‘Hanging by Invitation: Capital Punishment, The Carceral Archipelagoand Escalating Homicide Rates in the Caribbean and Africa’
... We need to set up programs in Love Studies as part of the solution to the increasing homicide rates and the problem of rising unemployment, industrialization problems and violent crimes. Dennis Pantin ...
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Terrorism and the Legitimation of Violence: A Cross-National Analysis on the Relationship between Terrorism and Homicide Rates
... Having provided new evidence on a positive association of terrorism and homicide rates, it is important to address how this link can be explained. Landau and Pfeffermann, for example, spoke of a ...
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Cities with camera-equipped taxicabs experience reduced taxicab driver homicide rates: United States, 1996–2010
... driver homicide crime reports for 1996 through 2010 were collected from 20 of the largest cities (>200,000) in the United States: 7 cities with cameras installed in cabs, 6 cities with partitions installed, and ...
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Structural covariates of homicide rates - are there any invariances across time and social space
... For example, a structural covariate found in one study to have, say, a statistically significant positive effect on homicide rates for a particular unit of analysi[r] ...
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The Dependence of Reported Homicide Rates on Reported Non Motor Vehicle Accident Death Rates in US Young Children and Infants, 1940 2007
... cide rates displayed sigmoid curves rising from a lower plateau to an upper plateau (Figures 1 through 4) is consistent with the thesis that some competitive influence may be driving the growth of these reported ...
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Do Executions Lower Homicide Rates: The Views of Leading Criminologists'
... 3 In 1996, Radelet and Akers surveyed sixty-seven leading American criminologists regarding their opinion about the empirical research on deterrence and found that the overwhelming major[r] ...
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Explaining Recent Trends in U S Homicide Rates
... In sum, all of the increase in the level of homicide in the United States during the growth period of the late 1980s and early 1990s was due to the trends in the younger ages, because ho[r] ...
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Homicide in Pregnant and Postpartum Women: A Review of the Literature
... to homicide, suicide or accidents being accurately recorded ...death rates and reduces the risk of underestimating homicide figures, particularly in those countries where the surveillance system ...
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The Changing Nature of Homicide and Its Impact on Homicide Clearance Rates: A Quantitative Analysis of Two Trends From 1984-2009
... the homicide clearance ...lower homicide rates predict higher homicide clearances, even when police resourcing budget has been ...the Homicide Number, a simple count of each ...
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Stroebe - Firarm Possession and Violent Death.pdfView Download
... A slightly different interpretation has been offered by Kleck and McElrath (1991) who argued that the relationship between gun prevalence and murder could be due to the fact that people, who have the intention to kill ...
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Thesis
... high rates of violence, yet the results did not suggest that population size nor rates of violence are the primary motivating factors for the existence of these exponential and power-law ...and ...
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Testing Social Disorganization Theory: Motivationally and Racially Disaggregated Homicide in 1985-1995 Chicago.
... interracial homicide in major American cities revealed Black intraracial homicide surges in cities plagued by poverty and declining ...white homicide offending—regardless of victim race—increases ...
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Homicide and the Death Penalty: A Cross National Test of a Deterrece Hypothesis
... Critics of dejure research have pursued several different arguments: They have complained 1 that gross homicide rates are not sensitive enough to pick up deterrent effects, specifically,[r] ...
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Neighborhood Socioeconomic Status and Homicides Among Children in Urban Canada
... on homicide rates among children living in smaller urban or rural areas remains ...of homicide were available, and different causes of homi- cide in children may have different risk relationships to ...
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Young Child Homicide and Accidental Death Rates in the United States, 1940 2005: Classification Issues in Mutually Exclusive Events
... the homicide rates observed among young US children may have reflected the necessary negative correlation between mutually exclusive, collectively exhaustive, and constant sum events rather than an actual ...
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Kennedy et al 1998 - income inequality predicts firearm violent crime.pdfView Download
... of homicide and violent ...®rearm homicide and violent ...®rearm homicide rates for the years 1987±1991 and ®rearm robbery and assault incidence rates for years 1991±1994 were obtained ...
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Youth Violence, Guns, and the Illicit Drug Industry
... In the previous discussion, we have identified three major changes that have occurred in the short period between 1985 and 1992: 1 homicide rates by youth eighteen and under have more th[r] ...
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fdv012.pdf
... calculated monthly using the number of homicides from the Mexican National Institute of Statistics and Geography and matched to admission month. 25 For the denominator of homicide rates, 2005 and 2010 ...
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Is Capital Punishment a Short Term Deterrent to Homicide A Study of the Effects of Four Recent American Executions
... 1983] DETERRENT EFFECTS OF CAPITAL PUNISHMENT 1021 Figure 1 presents the predicted national homicide rates from the ARIMA model, the lower 95% confidence boundary of the predicted rates,[r] ...
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Pattern of injury mortality by age-group in children aged 0–14 years in Scotland, 2002–2006, and its implications for prevention
... Results: 186 children aged 0–14 died from an injury in Scotland during 2002–06 (MR 4.3 per 100,000). Injuries were the leading cause of death in 1–14, 5–9 and 10–14 year-olds (causing 25%, 29% and 32% of all deaths ...
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