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Spatial-temporal patterns and trends of homicide in socioeconomically deprived settings: violence surveillance in Alagoas, Brazil, 2006‒2015 [PDF]

open access: green, 2020
Kevan Guilherme Nóbrega Barbosa   +5 more
openalex   +1 more source

Economic Policy Uncertainty and Crime: An Asymmetric Relationship

open access: yesEconomics &Politics, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT Using a sample of US counties for the period 2010–2018, this study is the first to isolate the effect of economic policy uncertainty (EPU) on crime rates. We employ an estimator that controls for joint endogeneity of regressors and find a crime inducing effect of rising uncertainty for violent crime.
Leo M. Doerr, Stefan Wilhelm
wiley   +1 more source

GUN ACCESS AND FEMICIDE: A DIFFERENTIAL IMPACT OF FIREARMS ON INTIMATE KILLINGS [PDF]

open access: yes, 2005
Studies of intimate partner homicide have repeatedly suggested that gun accessibility increases the risk that a confrontation between intimates will end in the death of one partner, usually the woman.
Cross, Amanda Brown
core  

Homicide in Relation to Mental Illness: Stigma Versus Reality [PDF]

open access: diamond, 2022
Zainab A Almomen   +7 more
openalex   +1 more source

Felons’ chattels and English living standards in the later fourteenth and fifteenth centuries

open access: yesThe Economic History Review, EarlyView.
Abstract The later fourteenth and fifteenth centuries have long occupied an intriguing and contested place in discussions of England's long‐run economic development. One key issue around which debate has coalesced is the living standards of the population as a whole and of different groups within it. We contribute to this debate by bringing forward new
Chris Briggs   +4 more
wiley   +1 more source

Macro-Economic Instability and Crime [PDF]

open access: yes
This paper adds to the literature on the economic determinants of crime by examining the impact of macro-economic instability. Instability increases the frustration level of individuals and incites them to smooth their income by using illegal earnings ...
Frédéric PUECH, Patrick GUILLAUMONT
core  

State Integration and Violence at the Margins: The Logic of Police Raids in Rio de Janeiro's Favelas

open access: yesThe Howard Journal of Crime and Justice, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT This paper investigates police raids in Rio de Janeiro's favelas through a property rights framework, exploring their organisational structure, motivations and implications. Using data from police reports, academic studies, NGOs and news sources, it examines why and how the state intervenes in these contested spaces.
Joseph Bouchard
wiley   +1 more source

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