Research on Cultural and Socioeconomic Factors in Criminal Violence

Messner, Steven F.

doi:10.1016/s0193-953x(18)30466-0

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“…The relationship between socioeconomic status and violence has been shown to exist in many high-income countries [79,80] and violence is more concentrated in areas of poverty and deprivation [54] and has been shown to increase along with income inequality and poverty [74,81]. In Cape Town the highest rates of homicide were recorded in the relatively impoverished sub-districts of Nyanga (132 per 100,000 population) and Khayelitsha (120 per 100,000 population) double the citywide average of 66 per 100,000 and three times the rate recorded in the city centre (42 per 100,000) [82].…”

Section: Structural Factorsmentioning

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Applying upstream interventions for interpersonal violence prevention: An uphill struggle in low- to middle-income contexts

et al. 2010

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a r t i c l e i n f o Keywords:Interpersonal violence prevention policy Risk factors Interventions Burden of disease Low-to middle-income contexts Western Cape South Africa a b s t r a c tIn South Africa's Western Cape province, interpersonal violence was identified among the key prevention priorities in the provincial government's Burden of Disease (BoD) Reduction project. To date, there are no adequate systematic reviews of the full range of potential intervention strategies. In response, available data and the literature on risk factors and prevention strategies for interpersonal violence were reviewed with a view to providing policy makers with an inventory of interventions for application. Given the predominance of upstream factors in driving the province's rates of interpersonal violence, efforts to address its burden require an intersectoral approach. Achievable short-term targets are also required to offset the long-term nature of the strategies most likely to affect fundamental shifts. Documentation and evaluation will be important to drive long-term investment, ensure effectiveness and enable replication of successful programmes and should be considered imperative by interpersonal violence prevention policymakers in other low-to middle-income contexts.

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Section: Structural Factorsmentioning

confidence: 99%

Applying upstream interventions for interpersonal violence prevention: An uphill struggle in low- to middle-income contexts

et al. 2010

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“…(52,53). Rates of youth violence are also higher in countries where social protection policies are weak, income inequality is high, and where a culture of violence prevails (54)(55)(56).…”

Section: Young People and Violencementioning

confidence: 99%

Carrying weapons and intent to harm among Victorian secondary school students in 1999 and 2009

Hemphill

Tollit

Romaniuk

et al. 2013

Medical Journal of Australia

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Research outh violence (for example, carrying a weapon or attacking someone with intent to harm) is one of the most important social and public health problems worldwide. 1-3 The costs of youth violence stem from harm caused to victims, as well as policing and criminal justice responses and community perceptions of reduced safety. 3,4 Violence was listed in the top three issues concerning young Australians in 2010. 5 Eight per cent of Victorian students in Years 7 and 9 engaged in violent behaviour in 2002, with higher rates among boys than girls. 6 In addition, rates of youth violence are higher in disadvantaged communities 7 and in regional communities with unstable populations and economic structures as well as high unemployment, 8 and lower among youths from immigrant families. 9 There have been reports of increases in violent offences perpetrated by youth in Australia 10 and media reports suggest more youth are violent. 11,12 National population-based surveys could measure whether rates of selfreported violence among youth have changed over time, but Australia does not have such surveys. In this article, we analyse data from Victorian surveys of secondary school students in 1999 and 2009 to examine whether rates of carrying a weapon and attacking someone with intent to harm have increased, after adjusting for sample demographic characteristics.

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“…La précarité socio-économique interviendrait comme déter-minant dans la genèse des altérations de santé [3][4][5] ou des faits de violence [6,7]. Les indicateurs de délinquance et de criminalité ont été corrélés aux conditions socio-économiques [8][9][10][11], notamment dans quelques études américaines réa-lisées à l'aide de données de recensement. Les taux de violences des différents états américains étaient corrélés au degré d'inégalité de distribution de revenus, au niveau d'édu-cation et au capital social [9,10].…”

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La précarité est plus fréquente chez les victimes de violences volontaires : intérêt du score EPICES

Sass

Belin²,

Chatain

et al. 2009

La Presse Médicale

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Research on Cultural and Socioeconomic Factors in Criminal Violence

Cited by 33 publications

References 40 publications

Applying upstream interventions for interpersonal violence prevention: An uphill struggle in low- to middle-income contexts

Applying upstream interventions for interpersonal violence prevention: An uphill struggle in low- to middle-income contexts

Carrying weapons and intent to harm among Victorian secondary school students in 1999 and 2009

La précarité est plus fréquente chez les victimes de violences volontaires : intérêt du score EPICES

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