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RACIAL INEQUALITY AND RACIALLY DISAGGREGATED HOMICIDE RATES: AN ASSESSMENT OF ALTERNATIVE THEORETICAL EXPLANATIONS*

MESSNER, STEVEN F., GOLDEN, REID M.·1992·Criminology
DOI 10.1111/j.1745-9125.1992.tb01111.x
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This research considers the relationship between levels of racial inequality and homicide rates for a sample of 154 U.S. cities. We identfy four causal processes that have been cited in the theoretical literature to explain the link between racial inequality and criminal violence. These diflerent causal explanations imply distinctive relationships between racial inequality and different types of homicide rates disaggregated by the racial characteristics of victims and offenders. Accordingly, we examine the effects of racial inequality on racially disaggregated homicide rates, as well as on total rates. We also introduce factor scales to alleviate the common problem of multicollinearity. Our results reveal significant, positive coefficients for racial inequality in equations predicting total homicide rates and race‐specific offending rates. These results offer greatest support for theoretical arguments emphasizing a generalized effect of racial inequality on the offending behavior of residents of metropolitan communities.

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Authors
MESSNER, S. F., & GOLDEN, R. M.
Venue
Criminology
Publisher
Wiley
Published
1992-08
Volume
30
Issue
3
Pages
421-448
ISSN
  • 0011-1384 (ISSN-L)
  • 1745-9125
DOI
10.1111/j.1745-9125.1992.tb01111.x
OpenAlex
W1968938216
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265
References
36
FWCI
8.99
Type
journal article
Language
en
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MESSNER, S. F., & GOLDEN, R. M. (1992). RACIAL INEQUALITY AND RACIALLY DISAGGREGATED HOMICIDE RATES: AN ASSESSMENT OF ALTERNATIVE THEORETICAL EXPLANATIONS*. Criminology. https://doi.org/10.1111/j.1745-9125.1992.tb01111.x

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