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Impact of Social and Institutional Indicators on the Homicide Rate in Ecuador: An Analysis Using Advanced Time Series Techniques
Over the last three decades, Ecuador has shifted from being one of the most violent countries in Latin America to being one of the safest countries....
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Child Survivors of Intimate Partner Homicide: Wraparound Intervention
Research into intimate partner homicide and the work of domestic violence fatality review teams identify the hidden plight of a population of child...
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Does education reduce homicide? A panel data analysis of Asian region
Education may play an active role in enhancing the abilities of people. It does not only help in training for the professional field but is one of...
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Exposure to Violence and Migration from Mexico to the United States
Longitudinal data from the Mexican Family Life Survey, in conjunction with aggregated vital statistics and census data, are used to examine how...
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The Civilising Process, Decline of Homicide, and Mass Murder Societies: Norbert Elias and the History of Violence
Originally formulated at the end of the 1930s, Norbert Elias’s theory of the civilising process gradually won recognition among scholars in the 1970s...
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Siblicide: The Psychology of Sibling Homicide
Siblicide has been overlooked in both the family violence literature and homicide studies. This is unsurprising as sibling abuse research in general...
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Setting bounds on age, period, and cohort effects using observed data
This paper presents a method that uses observed data from an age-period table to set bounds on the age, period, and cohort effects in an...
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The role of social control in Brazilian homicide rates
Violent crime in Brazil have grown since the 1980s. The state authorities are unable to ubiquitously monitor illegitimate activities. Less effective...
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The Effect of Social Cohesion on Subjective Individual Quality of Life in European Countries
Many scholars have studied the effects of economic conditions on subjective well-being, but scarce attention has been paid to the effect of cultural...
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Excess Deaths in the United States Compared to 18 Other High-Income Countries
The U.S. is exceptional among high-income countries for poor survival outcomes. Understanding the distribution of excess deaths by age, sex, and...
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The Impact of the Homicide Decline on Life Expectancy of African American Males
Homicide is a leading cause of death for young people in the United States aged 15–34, but it has a disproportionate impact on one subset of the...
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Homicide in pregnant and postpartum women worldwide: a review of the literature
We review the international literature on a neglected aspect of maternal mortality: maternal homicide. Reported rates range from 0.97 to 10.6 per...
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Social Justice Implications for Black Men’s Health: Policing Black Bodies
According to the CDC, the top 10 leading causes of death of Black Non-Hispanic Males in 2017 are: (1) heart disease, (2) cancer, (3) unintentional...
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Honor Killings and Crimes; Familial and Tribal Homicide
Honor killings are directed mostly against women and girls. Although rarely, men can also be the victims of honor killings by members of the family...
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Giving Birth While Facing Death: Cesarean Sections and Community Violence in Latin America
Armed conflict and organized crime are known to be linked to numerous negative maternal and neonatal health outcomes, such as stillbirth, low birth...
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Racial Invariance or Asian Advantage: Comparing the Macro-Level Predictors of Violence Across Asian, White, and Black Populations
Research shows that structural disadvantage is a key source of violent crime rates across racial/ethnic groups, a finding that has become more...
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Direct and Indirect Effects of Individualism and Institutions on Homicides
The present paper evaluates whether people in highly individualistic cultures have a lower propensity to commit homicides, using data from 70...
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Media coverage and territorial stigmatization: an analysis of crime news articles and crime statistics in Toronto
Research on territorial stigmatization has gained considerable traction in the past decade as urban inequalities accelerate under neoliberal...
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Characterizing Spatio-Temporal Differences in Homicides and Non-Fatal Shootings in Milwaukee, Wisconsin, 2006–2015
Geographic information systems enable the study of the spatial distribution of gun violence in American cities. While sociodemographic...
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From Free to Exoneree: A Narrative Analysis of Ex-treme Identity Processes as Expressed through Autobiographical Accounts of Exonerees
This chapter uses a symbolic interactionist perspective to shed light upon the processes involved in identity loss and reconstruction through...