Indices of Suicide and Homicide by States and Cities: Some Southern-Non-Southern Contrasts with Implications for Research

Porterfield, Austin L.

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“…The COMP study interpreted this finding as indicating that a crucial feature in the production of crime *The study of the effects of fluctuations in the business cycle should not be confused with those which address the issue of the effect of the developmental status of a country on crime. For the most part, the latter studies have clearly indicated that there is a positive relationship between industrial development and property crime, while for homicide, an inverse relationship is observed (Wiers, 1945;Porterfield, 1949;Hagedorntt al., 1971;Quinney, 1965;Wolf, 1971;Wellford, 1974).…”

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Inequality, Unemployment and Crime: A Cross-National Analysis

Krohn

1976

The Sociological Quarterly

129

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In order to contribute to the development of an international perspective on crime and to examine a central tenet similar to many theoretical perspectives on the etiology of crime, cross‐national data on inequality, unemployment, and crime rates were analyzed. It was hypothesized that nations having a high rate of unemployment and an inequitable distribution of income would have a high crime rate. The results of the correlational analyses indicate a moderate positive relationship between the rate of unemployment and homicide rates, whereas there are small negative relationships between unemployment rates and (1) the rates of property crime, and (2) the total crime rates. The variable of inequality is strongly related to the three indices of crime and the directions of the relationships are consistent with those involving unemployment rates. The results were further investigated to examine the possibility that the observed relationships were due to the effects of industrialization. The direction of the zero‐order correlations involving property crime rates and total crime rates are not changed in the partial correlations and the strength of the relationships are not consistently reduced. These results are discussed in reference to their implications for criminological theory and the development of a comparative criminology.

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Inequality, Unemployment and Crime: A Cross-National Analysis

Krohn

1976

The Sociological Quarterly

129

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“…Geographic region and homicide have long been associated. Throughout the twentieth century the South has exhibited higher homicide rates than other regions of the country (Gastil 1971;Hackney 1969;Hoffman 1925;Kowalski et al 1980;Lottier 1938;Porterfield 1949;Shannon 1954). Kowalski and Faupel (1985) found the South (a region with a high proportion of rural population) to consistently exhibit higher homicide rates than any other region in the Nation.…”

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The Impact of the Rural Population Component on Homicide Rates in the United States: A County‐Level Analysis

Kowalski

Duffield

1990

Rural Sociology

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Using 3,130 U.S. counties or county equivalents, this paper provides a test of the impact of rural population on the violent crime of homicide, while controlling for the effects of other correlates. The results indicate that the traditional bond of group cohesion assumed to be associated with the rural environment and its residents continues to have an inhibiting effect on homicide for counties in the United States.

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“…The stream analogy of lethal violence has a long theoretical tradition that depicts homicide and suicide as two alternative currents of a single stream (Gold, 1958;Henry & Short, 1954;Porterfield, 1949;Unnithan, Huff-Corzine, Corzine, & Whitt, 1994;Unnithan & Whitt, 1992;Whitt, 1985;Whitt, Gordon, & Hofley, 1972;Wolfgang & Ferracuti, 1967). This tradition, however, has been overshadowed by the research practice that examines the correlation of homicide and suicide separately as criminology and suicidology have become increasingly separate academic events with two academic associations.…”

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Homicide Studies

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This research examines the utility of the stream analogy of lethal violence. Based on frustration/aggression thesis and attribution thesis, expanded integrated models of total lethal violence and the suicide-homicide ratio are proposed. Using updated cross-national data, the results of regression analysis indicate that income inequality and economic development remain to be the predictors for the direction of lethal violence expressed as suicide, as the stream analogy predicts, after the divorce rate and unemployment rate are controlled for. The authors’ data also reveal that the divorce rate greatly increases the total amount of violence but does not influence the percentage of lethal violence that is expressed as suicide over homicide.

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Indices of Suicide and Homicide by States and Cities: Some Southern-Non-Southern Contrasts with Implications for Research

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Inequality, Unemployment and Crime: A Cross-National Analysis

Inequality, Unemployment and Crime: A Cross-National Analysis

The Impact of the Rural Population Component on Homicide Rates in the United States: A County‐Level Analysis

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