RT Article
T1 Homicide drop in seven European countries: General or specific across countries and crime types?
JF European journal of criminology
VO 21
IS 1
SP 3
OP 30
A1 Suonpää, Karoliina
A2 Kivivuori, Janne
A2 Aarten, Pauline
A2 Ahven, Andri
A2 Granath, Sven
A2 Markwalder, Nora
A2 Skott, Sara
A2 Thomsen, Asser H.
A2 Walser, Simone
A2 Liem, Marieke
LA English
YR 2024
UL https://krimdok.uni-tuebingen.de/Record/1894911873
AB This study examines homicide trends in seven European countries ? Denmark, Estonia, Finland, the Netherlands, Scotland, Sweden and Switzerland ? all of which manifested a substantial drop in homicide mortality between 1990 and 2016. By using data from the European Homicide Monitor, a coding scheme created to enable cross-country comparisons, combined with the national cause-of-death statistics, we explore generality versus specificity of the homicide drop. We examine changes in the demographic structure of victims and offenders and disaggregate homicides by different subtypes of lethal incidents, such as family-related homicides referring to conflicts between family members, and criminal milieu homicides occurring in the context of robberies, gang-related conflicts or organised crime. Results point to the generality of the drop: in most of the countries studied, the declining trend included all homicide types. The overall decline in homicide mortality was driven mostly by the decline in male victimisation and offending. In most of the countries, the gender distribution of victims and offenders changed only slightly during the study period, whereas the development of the distribution of homicide types manifested greater diversity. Our findings illustrate the benefits of disaggregated analyses in comparative homicide research.
K1 European homicide monitor
K1 Homicide drop
K1 criminal milieu homicide
K1 family-related homicide
K1 International Comparison
DO 10.1177/14773708221103799