Reconsidering the Relationship Between Alcohol and Lethal Violence

2007 ◽  
Vol 22 (1) ◽  
pp. 66-84 ◽  
Author(s):  
Scott Phillips ◽  
Jacqueline Matusko ◽  
Elizabeth Tomasovic
Keyword(s):  
Lethal Violence ◽  
The Relationship

National Religious Affiliation and Integrated Model of Homicide and Suicide

2016 ◽  
Vol 21 (1) ◽  
pp. 39-58 ◽  
Author(s):  
Don Soo Chon
Keyword(s):  
Religious Affiliation ◽  
World Health ◽  
Lethal Violence ◽  
Suicide Rates ◽  
Significant Difference ◽  
The World ◽  
Islamic Countries ◽  
Health Organization ◽  
High Level ◽  
The Relationship

The current study assessed the relationship between national religious affiliation and lethal violence by simultaneously examining homicide and suicide rates. The information on homicide and suicide rates for 124 countries came from the World Health Organization (WHO). Regression results suggested no significant difference in lethal violence between predominantly Catholic and Protestant countries, although Islamic countries revealed significantly lower homicide, suicide, and overall lethal violence rates than non-Islamic countries. Countries with a high level of religious heterogeneity are subject to an increased suicide rate. The implications of these findings were discussed.

National Culture and the Stream Analogy of Lethal Violence

2021 ◽  
pp. 108876792110597
Author(s):  
Don Soo Chon
Keyword(s):  
Developing Countries ◽  
Regression Analysis ◽  
National Culture ◽  
Suicide Rate ◽  
Homicide Rate ◽  
Lethal Violence ◽  
Cultural Measures ◽  
Using Data ◽  
Stream Analogy ◽  
The Relationship

This is the first study to explore the relationship between Inglehart and Baker’s national cultural measures and the stream analogy of lethal violence. Using data for 70 developed and developing countries, the regression analysis indicates that a country with self-expressionism or secularism is likely to have a high suicide rate relative to its homicide rate. In contrast, a country with a survivalism or traditionalism orientation is likely to have a high homicide rate relative to its suicide rate. This study suggests that national culture is related to the direction of lethal violence (i.e., suicide vs. homicide).

Disorder or Disadvantage: Investigating the Tension Between Neighborhood Social Structure and the Physical Environment on Local Violence

2021 ◽  
pp. 073401682199679
Author(s):  
Michael S. Barton ◽  
Matthew A. Valasik ◽  
Elizabeth Brault
Keyword(s):  
Crime Prevention ◽  
Physical Environment ◽  
Structural Characteristics ◽  
Lethal Violence ◽  
Social Structural ◽  
Neighborhood Risk ◽  
Short Run ◽  
Relationship Of ◽  
The Relationship

A renewed interest in understanding the relationship of the built environment with neighborhood crime patterns has encouraged researchers to utilize novel methods (e.g., risk terrain modeling) to better examine the influence of environmental risk factors on types of crime. The current study engages with this research by operationalizing neighborhoods using Hipp and Boessen’s egohood strategy and using Drawve’s aggregate neighborhood risk of crime measure to assess the relationship of a neighborhood’s physical environment with its spatial vulnerability of experiencing a homicide. Findings demonstrate that the physical environment was a significant predictor of neighborhood homicide; however, social structural neighborhood characteristics were more important. This suggests crime prevention strategies like crime prevention though environmental design or blight remediation may provide prudent and straightforward methods to inhibit lethal violence in a community in the short run, but that addressing a neighborhood’s social structural characteristics may be more effective at reducing homicides in the long term.

Examining the Relationship between the Lethality Assessment/Domestic Violence High-risk Team Monitoring (LAP/DVHRT) Program and Prosecution Outcomes

2021 ◽  
pp. 088626052110283
Author(s):  
Kristin L. Anderson ◽  
Hannah Bryan ◽  
Alexis Martinez ◽  
Brandon Huston
Keyword(s):  
Domestic Violence ◽  
High Risk ◽  
Sentence Length ◽  
Exact Matching ◽  
Full Sample ◽  
Lethal Violence ◽  
Using Data ◽  
And Control ◽  
The Relationship ◽  
Sentencing Outcomes

Lethality assessment (LAP) and team monitoring of high-risk offenders (DVHRT) are recent U.S. policy innovations designed to identify domestic violence offenders who are at high risk for perpetrating serious or lethal violence against their intimate partners. One goal of LAP/DVHRT is to increase offenders’ accountability for domestic violence within the legal system. This study examines associations between LAP/DVHRT and prosecution and sentencing outcomes using data on domestic violence offenses ( n = 88) involving 37 offenders monitored by a DVHRT and 51 nonmonitored comparison offenders who were identified as high risk on the LAP. We use logistic and OLS regression to estimate models of six prosecution and sentencing outcomes for the full sample and for a sample matched using the coarsened exact matching technique ( n = 73). Multivariate results indicate that when the treatment and comparison samples are matched and control variables are included in regression models, the LAP/DVHRT program is not associated with prosecution or conviction rates, number of charges, or bail amount. DVHRT monitoring is positively associated with sentence length in multivariate analysis and in models using the matched sample. Findings suggest that the LAP/DVHRT program increases offender accountability in the form of incapacitation at the sentencing stages.

Injury Patterns for Homicide Followed by Suicide by the Relationship Between Victims and Offenders

2016 ◽  
Vol 21 (2) ◽  
pp. 111-132 ◽  
Author(s):  
Amy Reckdenwald ◽  
Shannon Simone
Keyword(s):  
Reporting System ◽  
Relationship Status ◽  
Future Research ◽  
Violent Death ◽  
Injury Patterns ◽  
Lethal Violence ◽  
Offender Characteristics ◽  
Research Gap ◽  
Using Data ◽  
The Relationship

The connection between the victim–offender relationship and injury patterns has been established in the lethal violence literature; however, this association has not been explored in the study of homicide followed by the perpetrator’s suicide. Using data from the National Violent Death Reporting System (NVDRS), we address this research gap by examining violence inflicted on 1,718 homicide–suicide victims that occurred between 2003 and 2013. Results show some support for variation in injury across intimacy and relationship status while considering victim and offender characteristics; however, results were not as predicted. Avenues for future research are discussed.

The Relationship Between Substance Use, Drug Selling, and Lethal Violence in 25 Juvenile Murderers

2000 ◽  
Vol 45 (2) ◽  
pp. 14687J ◽  
Author(s):  
Colleen R. McLaughlin ◽  
Jack Daniel ◽  
Timothy F. Joost
Keyword(s):  
Substance Use ◽  
Lethal Violence ◽  
Drug Selling ◽  
The Relationship ◽  
Juvenile Murderers

scholarly journals MURDER AND DRUG TRAFFICKING SPATIAL DEPENDENCE

Mercator ◽  
2020 ◽  
Vol 19 (2020) ◽  
pp. 1-17
Author(s):  
Antonio Hot Pereira de Faria ◽  
Diego Filipe Cordeiro Alves
Keyword(s):  
Drug Trafficking ◽  
Spatial Association ◽  
Spatial Relationship ◽  
Drug Market ◽  
Social Conditions ◽  
Lethal Violence ◽  
High Incidence ◽  
Belo Horizonte ◽  
The Relationship ◽  
The City

This paper analyzes the correlation between drug trafficking and homicides in the city of Belo Horizonte, Minas Gerais - Brazil, to identify the spatial relationship between these phenomena in the urban environment. Based on data from the police reports in the period of 2007 to 2016, the spatial patterns of these criminal typologies and their spatial association were evaluated. The data were grouped on a 500-meter square grid, showing the main hot spots for the two types of crimes, as well as their recurrence. To complement the analysis, an indicator was proposed based on the assumptions of Ousey and Lee (2002), who describe the pre-existing social conditions for the relationship between drug trafficking and homicides to be established. From the methodology adopted, it was possible to verify the spatial association between the two criminal classifications, as well as the tendency for clusters of cells with a high incidence of crimes to be formed. There was also an association between the empirical data and those regions of the city where the pre-existing social conditions that encourage the association between drug trafficking and homicides are present, reinforcing the idea that the illegal drug market is a contingent cause of lethal violence. Keywords: Violence. Homicide, Drug Trafficking, Spatial Analysis, Spatial correlation.

Interstellar gas in the central region of the Galaxy

1967 ◽  
Vol 31 ◽  
pp. 239-251 ◽  
Author(s):  
F. J. Kerr
Keyword(s):  
Central Region ◽  
Galactic Plane ◽  
Neutral Hydrogen ◽  
Continuum Emission ◽  
Galactic Centre ◽  
Interstellar Gas ◽  
Hydrogen Recombination ◽  
The Galaxy ◽  
Centre Region ◽  
The Relationship

A review is given of information on the galactic-centre region obtained from recent observations of the 21-cm line from neutral hydrogen, the 18-cm group of OH lines, a hydrogen recombination line at 6 cm wavelength, and the continuum emission from ionized hydrogen.Both inward and outward motions are important in this region, in addition to rotation. Several types of observation indicate the presence of material in features inclined to the galactic plane. The relationship between the H and OH concentrations is not yet clear, but a rough picture of the central region can be proposed.

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