Regional Subculture and Homicide: An Examination of the Gastil-Hackney Thesis

Loftin, Colin; Hill, Robert H.

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“…However, some critics have contended that these higher rates are merely a function of higher levels of economic depriva tion and/or a larger black population in this region (Loftin and Hill, 1974;Allen and Bankston, 1981;Smith and Parker, 1980;Parker and Smith, 1979;Humphries and Wal lace, 1980). Our findings for U.S. cities are at odds with the "southern culture of violence" argument whereas Messner claims that a southern regional effect on homicides "appears unmistakably in the [his] regression analyses " (1982: 111).…”

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“…This is an impressive body of research and is clearly not called into question by a single study (Messner, 1982). In addition, there are also a handful of cross-sectional studies (that do not simultaneously consider poverty) that report a direct relation between income inequality, or some other form of relative deprivation, and homi cide that cannot be easily dismissed (Loftin and Hill, 1974;Mathur, 1978;Blau and Blau, 1982).2…”

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Poverty, Inequality, and City Homicide Rates

1984

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Messner's recent investigation of homicide and relative and absolute economic deprivation is replicated here, but cities rather than SMSA's and three years (1950, 1960, 1970) rather than one (1970) are considered. Because of tremendous intra‐unit variation for SMSAs with respect to homicides and sociodemographic characteristics (an important variation that is masked when data are aggregated on a SMSA level), cities are a preferable unit of analysis in cross‐sectional investigations of homicide. Where M e s m found a significant negative relationship between percentage of poverty (absolute deprivation) and homicides, I consistently find the opposite pattern as predicted. In both studies, however, there is only a slight and nonsignificant relationship between relative economic deprivation (income inequality) and homicides. Unlike Messner, however, I do not consider this finding surprising. At best, there is only a weak theoretical linkage between homicide and relative economic deprivation. Accordingly, the results of this investigation for both absolute and relative deprivation are neither “perplexing” nor do they warrant the “serious reconsideration of the linkages between poverty, inequality and the homicide rate” that Messner (1982: 112) calls for.

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Section: Messner's Findings and Previous Researchmentioning

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Poverty, Inequality, and City Homicide Rates

1984

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“…Existem importantes trabalhos que procuram relacionar a incidência de crimes com a estrutura socioeconômica de Estados-nações (Messner, 1980), regiões (Loftin e Hill, 1974) e áreas metropolitanas (Blau e Blau, 1982).…”

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Determinantes da criminalidade em Minas Gerais

Beato¹

1998

Rev. bras. Ci. Soc.

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O artigo tem um duplo objetivo. Primeiro, estabelecer uma discussão acerca das abordagens que tratam da distribuição espacial da criminalidade. Quais as implicações teóricas da utilização de dados espaciais para o estudo da criminalidade? Segundo o autor, ao deslocar a atenção para os locais de incidência de crimes, ao invés das características dos criminosos, é possível uma análise dos componentes racionais e utilitaristas de determinados tipos de delitos. O outro objetivo do artigo é fazer uma análise, a partir das premissas teóricas estabelecidas anteriormente, da incidência da criminalidade nos 756 municípios de Minas Gerais durante o ano de 1991. Para tal, são utilizados índices corrigidos através dos estimadores empíricos de Bayes para todos os municípios, correlacionados com indicadores socioeconômicos.

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“…The link between poverty and physical violence has been established by many studies (Curtis, 1975;Loftin & Hill, 1974;National Institute of Justice, 2004). Studies indicate that the majority of women who are homeless and/or receive public assistance are currently or were formerly abused by their partners or spouses (Raphael & Tolman, 1997).…”

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Exploring Battered Mexican-Origin Women's Help-Seeking Within Their Sociocultural Contexts

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2007

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Regional Subculture and Homicide: An Examination of the Gastil-Hackney Thesis

Cited by 338 publications

References 6 publications

Poverty, Inequality, and City Homicide Rates

Poverty, Inequality, and City Homicide Rates

Determinantes da criminalidade em Minas Gerais

Exploring Battered Mexican-Origin Women's Help-Seeking Within Their Sociocultural Contexts

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