How international rents moderate business cycles’ relationship to high homicide rates

I explore the relationships between macroeconomic conditions and how the forms of integration into the global economy affect homicide rates in 21 high-violence countries from 2000 to 2018. The analysis focuses on countries integrated into the global economy by accruing international economic rents....

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Main Author: Leon, Daniel S. (Author)
Format: Electronic Article
Language:English
Published: 2023
In: Global crime
Year: 2023, Volume: 24, Issue: 1, Pages: 1-18
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Keywords:
GDP growth
Global South
Homicide rates
Moderated mediation
natural resource rents
remittances
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Summary:I explore the relationships between macroeconomic conditions and how the forms of integration into the global economy affect homicide rates in 21 high-violence countries from 2000 to 2018. The analysis focuses on countries integrated into the global economy by accruing international economic rents. I use data from 2000 to 2018 to analyse how resource rents and remittances moderated the relationship between business cycles and high homicide rates. Moreover, I also evaluate how socioeconomic conditions mediate the above relationship. The results indicate that natural resource rents conditioned a procyclical relationship between business cycles and homicide rates. Contrastingly, remittances conditioned a countercyclical relationship between business cycles and homicide rates. The findings contribute to the rich and growing economic criminology and international political economy literature investigating how international rents condition subnational violence.
Item Description:Literaturverzeichnis: Seite 15-18
ISSN:1744-0580
DOI:10.1080/17440572.2022.2138859