RT Article
T1 The Social-Structural Correlates of Homicide in Late-Tsarist Russia
JF The British journal of criminology
VO 47
IS 1
SP 80
OP 99
A1 Stickley, Andrew
A1 Pridemore, William Alex
LA English
YR 2007
UL https://krimdok.uni-tuebingen.de/Record/1639314512
AB Using official socio-economic and vital statistics data from the end of the tsarist period, this study builds on and extends previous investigations of homicide in early twentieth-century Europe by examining which social-structural factors were associated with the variation in homicide rates among the 50 provinces of European Russia in 1910. The results of negative binomial regression show heavy drinking to be positively associated, and population density and literacy inversely associated, with provincial homicide rates. These findings suggest that the tension between modernity and tradition, which was more generally evident in Russian society during this period, may also have underpinned the regional variation observed in aggregate-level homicide rates. Moreover, the high rural homicide rates seen in both tsarist Russia and at the end of the Soviet period might indicate that the criminological transition' that may have occurred in other Western countries during the course of the twentieth century could have taken a different form or have been delayed in Russia, due at least in part to the actions and policies of the Soviet state
K1 Zarenreich
K1 Russland
K1 Tötungsdelikte
K1 Sozialstruktur
K1 Alkoholmissbrauch
K1 Geschichte
DO 10.1093/bjc/azl033