Understanding Crime in Colombia and What Can Be Done About It [PDF]
. We attempt to spell out the causes and costs of Colombia´s crime situation. Homicide rates are the highest in the world, three times higher than those of Brazil & Mexico and ten times higher than those of other Latin American countries.
Levitt Steven, Mauricio Rubio
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Homicide Cycles in Colombia [PDF]
We estimate a model to account for homicide cycles in Colombia, 1950-1999. The variables that together account for about eighty percent of the variation in murder cycles are the years of Colombia(s La Violencia period, the years of collusion between the ...
Brauer, J, Gomez-Sorzano, A.G.
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Economic Policy Uncertainty and Crime: An Asymmetric Relationship
Economics &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
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Suicide attempts among incarcerated homicide offenders [PDF]
, 2015 The aim was to investigate the role of age, drug abuse, period of confinement, loneliness, difficulty in controlling emotions, having no friends in prison, victimization in prison, guilt over crimes, insomnia, nightmares, anxiety, depression, and mood ...
Boduszek, Daniel +3 more
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Effectiveness of Taxicab Security Equipment in Reducing Driver Homicide Rates [PDF]
, 2013 Cammie K. Chaumont Menéndez +5 more
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Felons’ chattels and English living standards in the later fourteenth and fifteenth centuries
The 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
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The spate of spousal homicide in Nigeria: Reconsidering the Christian divorce prohibition
Theologia ViatorumIn recent times, spousal homicide resulting from domestic violence has been on the increase in Nigeria, and one major factor responsible for this is the Christian doctrine that prohibits divorce.
Solomon O. Ademiluka
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Macro-Economic Instability and Crime [PDF]
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
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The Young Male Syndrome Revisited – Homicide Data from Hungarian and Australian Populations [PDF]
, 2016 Péter Farsang, Ferenc Kocsor
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Psychiatrists’ Experience of a Peer Support Group for Reflecting on Patient Suicide and Homicide: A Qualitative Study [PDF]
, 2022 Millie Tamworth +3 more
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