Firearms and Homicide in Europe

Killias, Martin; Markwalder, Nora

doi:10.1007/978-1-4614-0466-8_16

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“…The confiscation of firearms during and immediately after the war reduced the number of guns in the hands of the civilian population. Hence the low availability of handguns, combined with the fact that there is no tradition of carrying guns in public, could explain the low levels of homicide with firearms recorded in the region even now (UNODC, 2014: 66) as well as the prominent role of firearms in domestic female homicides, which usually take place at home (Killias and Markwalder, 2012).…”

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The persistence of lifestyles: Rates and correlates of homicide in Western Europe from 1960 to 2010

Aebi

Linde

2014

European Journal of Criminology

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This article analyses rates and correlates of homicide in 15 West European countries from 1960 to 2010. The results show that the levels of homicide in 2010 and the trends in homicide from 1960 to 2010 are not related to any of the traditional demographic and socioeconomic predictors of crime. Homicide victimization rates show an increase from the mid-1960s until the early 1990s, and a decrease since then. Victims of both genders and all group ages follow the same trend, except in the case of infanticide, which decreased during the whole period. These results do not support the hypothesis of a homicide trend driven by the evolution of victimization of young men in public space. The authors propose an explanation based on a lifestyle approach.

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The persistence of lifestyles: Rates and correlates of homicide in Western Europe from 1960 to 2010

Aebi

Linde

2014

European Journal of Criminology

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“…This may be the result of less planning on the part of offenders of this type of homicide, or, ultimately, to the physical inferiority of older men compared with their usually younger assailants. A further explanation may be that, despite Switzerland's high gun ownership rate, guns are not as common in the criminal underworld as in US cities (Killias and Markwalder, 2012).…”

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Unsolved homicides in Switzerland: Patterns and explanations

Bänziger¹,

Killias

2014

European Journal of Criminology

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In Switzerland, the number of completed homicides has varied in the last 30 years between 46 and 110 cases per year. On average, 13 percent of the homicides have been unsolved. The Swiss Homicide Database, which covers more than 1300 completed homicide cases committed between 1980 and 2004, has been used to study their characteristics. The data show that unsolved murder cases occur more often in public than in private places and involve predominantly unmarried men under 40, of foreign nationality or of homosexual orientation. A logistic regression showed that the strongest predictors are the sexual tendency of the victim and the location of the event.

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“…Our analysis thus complements previous research, which used figures from victimization surveys as their dependent variables or only analyzed a few selected country years (Killias ; Killias et al . ; Killias & Markwalder ). Table lists the detailed ICD codes used for the analysis.…”

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Does regulation matter? A cross‐national analysis of the impact of gun policies on homicide and suicide rates

Hurka¹,

Knill²

2018

Regulation & Governance

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In this contribution, we evaluate the effectiveness of firearm regulations in curbing the number of homicides and suicides committed both with and without firearms. We develop a gun control index that enables us to compare the restrictiveness of firearm regulations across time and space. We model the effects of gun control on figures of (gun) homicide and (gun) suicide gained from public health records in 16 West European countries between 1980 and 2010. We thus shift the analytical focus away from the United States, which can be considered an extreme case in many ways and analyze the effects of gun control in a least likely setting: a world region in which gun control is comparably strict to begin with. Our analysis demonstrates that stricter gun control entails a strong and robust negative effect not only on homicides and suicides committed with firearms, but also on overall homicide and suicide rates.

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Firearms and Homicide in Europe

Cited by 35 publications

References 9 publications

The persistence of lifestyles: Rates and correlates of homicide in Western Europe from 1960 to 2010

The persistence of lifestyles: Rates and correlates of homicide in Western Europe from 1960 to 2010

Unsolved homicides in Switzerland: Patterns and explanations

Does regulation matter? A cross‐national analysis of the impact of gun policies on homicide and suicide rates

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