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La Comprensión de los Homicidios en América Latina: ¿Pobreza o Institucionalidad?

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Briceño-León, Roberto·2012·Ciência & Saúde Coletiva

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Los homicidios ocurren en todo el mundo, pero no están homogéneamente distribuidos, cambian por zonas geográficas: continentes, países, regiones; en periodos de tiempo largos o cortos o por lo grupos sociales: edad, sexo, clase social o etnia. ¿Por qué en unos países hay más homicidios que en otros? ¿Por qué en unos países disminuyen los asesinatos y en otros se incrementan? Las explicaciones sociales de la violencia han tenido dos vertientes fundamentales: las teorías que la atribuyen a la pobreza y la desigualdad y las teorías de la institucionalidad o las normas sociales. Para discutir esas teorías el artículo analiza y compara los cambios ocurridos en Colombia, Venezuela y Brasil en la primera década del siglo XXI donde respectivamente disminuye, aumenta y se mantiene igual la tasa de homicidios. Utilizando la medición de seis variables (pobreza, desigualdad, desempleo, riqueza nacional, desarrollo humano y gobierno de la ley) y la técnica del análisis de trayectorias se encontró que la institucionalidad tiene una mayor fuerza explicativa en los cambios observados que la pobreza y la desigualdad. El texto concluye que la pobreza o la desigualdad influyen en la criminalidad y en los homicidios, aunque no de manera directa, sino mediadas por las instituciones.

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Authors
Briceño-León, R.
Affiliations
Universidad Central de Venezuela (VE)
Corresponding author
Briceño-León, Roberto
Venue
Ciência & Saúde Coletiva
Published
2012-12
Volume
17
Issue
12
Pages
3159-3170
ISSN
1413-8123 (ISSN-L)
OpenAlex
W1988261676
Cited by
44
References
50
Citations by year
2026: 3 · 2025: 4 · 2024: 4 · 2023: 4 · 2022: 1 · 2021: 6 · 2020: 1 · 2019: 5 · 2018: 4 · 2017: 3 · 2016: 3 · 2015: 4 · 2014: 2
FWCI
6.30
Type
journal article
Language
es
Open access
Licence
cc-by-nc
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Topics
  • Social Sciences › Sociology and Political Science › Crime Patterns and Interventions
  • Social Sciences › Sociology and Political Science › Crime, Illicit Activities, and Governance
  • Social Sciences › Sociology and Political Science › Homicide, Infanticide, and Child Abuse
Keywords
homicide, poverty, inequality, institutionalization, social norms, rule of law, human development, unemployment, national wealth, trajectory analysis, violence, Colombia, Venezuela, Brazil, Latin America
MeSH terms
Adolescent, Adult, Aged, Brazil, Child, Child, Preschool, Colombia, Crime, Female, Homicide, Humans, Latin America, Male, Middle Aged, Poverty, Social Control, Formal, Socioeconomic Factors, Venezuela, Young Adult

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