Southernness, migration, and homicide risk: An analysis of individual-level data

The regional culture of violence literature has neglected the effect migration out of the South has on individual-level homicide risk. The present paper tests the hypothesis that moving away from the South reduces exposure to a relatively large class of motivated offenders and lowers the risk of hom...

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Autor principal: Stack, Steven (Autor)
Tipo de documento: Electrónico Artículo
Lenguaje:Inglés
Publicado: 2002
En: American journal of criminal justice
Año: 2002, Volumen: 26, Número: 2, Páginas: 165-179
Acceso en línea: Volltext (lizenzpflichtig)
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Palabras clave:
Motivate Offender
Criminal Victimization
Homicide Rate
American Sociological Review
Poverty Rate
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Sumario:The regional culture of violence literature has neglected the effect migration out of the South has on individual-level homicide risk. The present paper tests the hypothesis that moving away from the South reduces exposure to a relatively large class of motivated offenders and lowers the risk of homicide victimization to non-Southern levels. The data come from the National Mortality Detail File and include 2,647 homicides and 403,184 natural deaths. A multivariate logistic regression analysis shows that migration out of the South does not normalize homicide risk. Thus, former Southerners continue to remain at a relatively high risk of homicide victimization in spite of relocating to a safer environment.
ISSN:1936-1351
DOI:10.1007/BF02887825