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Economic Discrimination and Societal Homicide Rates: Further Evidence on the Cost of Inequality
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This research examines the effects of economic discrimination against social groups on national rates of homicide....I hypothesize that nations with intense and pervasive discrimination will exhibit comparatively high levels of homicide and that the effects of discrimination will exceed those of income inequality. Regression analyses using both INTERPOL and World Health Organization homicide data support both hypotheses. Indicators of economic discrimination against social groups are significantly and positively related to homicide rates despite fairly extensive controls for other theoretically relevant national characteristics....These results suggest that the structuring of economic inequality on the basis of ascribed characteristics is a particularly important source of lethal violence in contemporary societies. (EXCERPT)
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The Cost of Inequality: Metropolitan Structure and Violent Crime
Blau, J. R., & Blau, P. M. (1982) · American Sociological Review · doi:10.2307/2095046 · Cited by 1,500
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- Authors
- Messner, S. F.
- Venue
- American Sociological Review
- Publisher
- SAGE Publications
- Published
- 1989-08
- Volume
- 54
- Issue
- 4
- Pages
- 597
- ISSN
- 0003-1224 (ISSN-L)
- OpenAlex
- W2068105640
- Cited by
- 242
- References
- 1
- FWCI
- 29.68
- Type
- journal article
- Language
- en
- Open access
- closed
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