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Political Restraint of the Market and Levels of Criminal Homicide: A Cross-National Application of Institutional-Anomie Theory
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This article examines the effects on national homicide rates of political efforts to insulate personal well-being from market forces. Drawing upon recent work by Esping-Andersen and the institutional-anomie theory of crime, we hypothesize that levels of homicide will vary inversely with the “decommodification of labor.” We develop a measure of decommodification based on levels and patterns of welfare expenditures and include this measure in a multivariate, cross-national analysis of homicide rates. The results support our hypothesis and lend credibility to the institutional-anomie perspective. The degree of decommodification is negatively related to homicide rates, net of controls for other characteristics of nations.
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Metadata
- Authors
- Messner, S. F., & Rosenfeld, R.
- Venue
- Social Forces
- Publisher
- Oxford University Press (OUP)
- Published
- 1997-06-01
- Volume
- 75
- Issue
- 4
- Pages
- 1393-1416
- ISSN
- 0037-7732 (ISSN-L)
- 1534-7605
- OpenAlex
- W2132317622
- Cited by
- 412
- References
- 0
- FWCI
- 15.28
- Type
- journal article
- Language
- en
- Open access
- closed
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