Reassessing the Cross-National Relationship Between Income Inequality and Homicide Rates: Implications of Data Quality Control in the Measurement of Income Distribution

A significant positive relationship between income inequality and homicide rates has been found in a large number of cross-sectional studies and a few longitudinal analyses; a theoretically interesting interaction effect between income inequality and social welfare has also been found. For the most...

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Main Author: Messner, Steven F. (Author)
Contributors: Raffalovich, Lawrence E. ; Shrock, Peter
Format: Electronic Article
Language:English
Published: 2002
In: Journal of quantitative criminology
Year: 2002, Volume: 18, Issue: 4, Pages: 377-395
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