RT Article
T1 The Murder Epidemic: A Global Comparative Study
JF International criminal justice review
VO 29
IS 2
SP 105
OP 120
A1 Asongu, Simplice
A1 Acha-Anyi, Paul N.
A2 Acha-Anyi, Paul N.
LA English
YR 2019
UL https://krimdok.uni-tuebingen.de/Record/1751139425
AB We build on literature from policy and academic circles to assess whether Latin America is leading when it comes to persistence in homicides. The focus is on a global sample of 163 countries for the period 2010 to 2015. The empirical evidence is based on generalized method of moments. The following main finding is established. The region with the highest evidence of persistence in homicides is sub-Saharan Africa, followed by Latin America, the Middle East and North Africa (MENA), and then by Europe and Central Asia. In order to increase room for policy implications, the data set is decomposed into income levels, religious domination, landlockedness, and legal origins. From the conditioning information set, the following factors account for persistence in global homicides: crime, political instability, and weapons import positively affect homicides whereas the number of “security and police officers” has the opposite effect.
K1 global evidence
K1 Homicides
K1 Persistence
K1 Latin America
DO 10.1177/1057567718759584