RT Article
T1 Southernness, migration, and homicide risk: An analysis of individual-level data
JF American journal of criminal justice
VO 26
IS 2
SP 165
OP 179
A1 Stack, Steven
LA English
YR 2002
UL https://krimdok.uni-tuebingen.de/Record/1764208021
AB 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.
K1 Motivate Offender
K1 Criminal Victimization
K1 Homicide Rate
K1 American Sociological Review
K1 Poverty Rate
DO 10.1007/BF02887825