RT Article
T1 Where poverty matters: examining the cross-national relationship between Eeconomic deprivation and homicide
JF The British journal of criminology
VO 58
IS 2
SP 372
OP 393
A1 Rennó Santos, Mateus
A2 Testa, Alexander
A2 Weiss, Douglas B.
LA English
YR 2018
UL https://krimdok.uni-tuebingen.de/Record/1573998168
AB Recent research on the role of economic deprivation in explaining cross-national homicide rates is inconsistent. These inconsistencies may be attributed to the use of samples composed primarily of developed countries, and the implicit assumption that the impact of deprivation is constant throughout the homicide distribution. The current study challenges this assumption and suggests a dynamic relationship between deprivation and homicide. Using a broad sample of 148 countries this work applies quantile regression to examine whether inequality and poverty have consistent impacts across the entire homicide distribution. Results indicate that inequality and homicide have a universal positive relationship. In contrast, poverty is only related to homicide in countries with lower homicide rates. Findings are discussed within the context of strain theory.
K1 Homicide
K1 Economic deprivation
K1 Correlates of  homicide
K1 Cross-national criminology
K1 Quantile regression
K1 Tötungsdelikte
K1 Ökonomische Deprivation
K1 Korrelationsanalyse
K1 Ländervergleich
K1 Länderübergreifende Studie
DO 10.1093/bjc/azx013