An Assessment of the Trend in Crimes of Violence Against the Person According to Their Factual Substance

McClintock, F. H.

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“…However, regardless of parallel trends, the magnitude of the changes was different among different categories. Regarding family-related homicides, female mortality produced a greater change, as suggested by McClintock (1963), who stated that female homicide mortality was linked with domestic violence, and Verkko (1951) who wrote that different factors influenced the lives of men and women.…”

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“…Verkko explained this regularityalso known as Verkko's dynamic lawby referring to the differences between the everyday contexts and routines of men's and women's lives, as he pointed out: 'The fact that the woman lives in a somewhat different and more peaceful atmosphere than the man, and that the factors influencing her [life] are not nearly so subject to changes as those affecting a man' (Verkko, 1951: 54). A decade later, McClintock (1963) analysed homicidal crime in London and found that compared to male homicide mortality, changes in female homicide mortality were slower and more moderate. More recently, Spierenburg (2012) has emphasised the role of men in the variation of homicide rates in Europe since the middle ages.…”

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Homicide drop in seven European countries: General or specific across countries and crime types?

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European Journal of Criminology

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This study examines homicide trends in seven European countries – Denmark, Estonia, Finland, the Netherlands, Scotland, Sweden and Switzerland – all of which manifested a substantial drop in homicide mortality between 1990 and 2016. By using data from the European Homicide Monitor, a coding scheme created to enable cross-country comparisons, combined with the national cause-of-death statistics, we explore generality versus specificity of the homicide drop. We examine changes in the demographic structure of victims and offenders and disaggregate homicides by different subtypes of lethal incidents, such as family-related homicides referring to conflicts between family members, and criminal milieu homicides occurring in the context of robberies, gang-related conflicts or organised crime. Results point to the generality of the drop: in most of the countries studied, the declining trend included all homicide types. The overall decline in homicide mortality was driven mostly by the decline in male victimisation and offending. In most of the countries, the gender distribution of victims and offenders changed only slightly during the study period, whereas the development of the distribution of homicide types manifested greater diversity. Our findings illustrate the benefits of disaggregated analyses in comparative homicide research.

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