scholarly journals Income Inequality and Violent Crime: Evidence from Mexico’s Drug War

10.1596/24872 ◽  
2016 ◽  
Author(s):  
Ted Enamorado ◽  
Luis F. López-Calva ◽  
Carlos Rodríguez-Castelán ◽  
Hernán Winkler
Keyword(s):  
Income Inequality ◽  
Violent Crime ◽  
Drug War

scholarly journals Income inequality and violent crime: Evidence from Mexico's drug war

2016 ◽  
Vol 120 ◽  
pp. 128-143 ◽  
Author(s):  
Ted Enamorado ◽  
Luis F. López-Calva ◽  
Carlos Rodríguez-Castelán ◽  
Hernán Winkler
Keyword(s):  
Income Inequality ◽  
Violent Crime ◽  
Drug War

scholarly journals Income Inequality and Violent Crime: Evidence from Mexico's Drug War

2014 ◽  
Author(s):  
Ted Enamorado ◽  
Luis-Felipe López-Calva ◽  
Carlos Rodríguez-Castelan ◽  
Hernán Winkler
Keyword(s):  
Income Inequality ◽  
Violent Crime ◽  
Drug War

scholarly journals Impact of Violent Crime on Risk Aversion: Evidence from the Mexican Drug War

2017 ◽  
Author(s):  
Ryan Brown ◽  
Verónica Montalva ◽  
Duncan Thomas ◽  
Andrea Velásquez
Keyword(s):  
Risk Aversion ◽  
Violent Crime ◽  
Drug War ◽  
Mexican Drug War

scholarly journals Can Education Reduce Violent Crime? Evidence from Mexico before and after the Drug War Onset

2021 ◽  
pp. 1-18
Author(s):  
Kristian Skrede Gleditsch ◽  
Mauricio Rivera ◽  
Bárbara Zárate-Tenorio
Keyword(s):  
Violent Crime ◽  
Drug War ◽  
Before And After

Drug War Capitalism and Class Conflict in the Americas

2019 ◽  
pp. 185-208
Author(s):  
Horace A. Bartilow
Keyword(s):  
United States ◽  
Latin America ◽  
Income Inequality ◽  
Structural Equation ◽  
Mass Incarceration ◽  
The United States ◽  
Class Conflict ◽  
Drug War ◽  
Drug Enforcement ◽  
Corporate Capital

This chapter argues that the drug war is a manifestation of class conflict in Latin America and the United States. The chapter is motivated by the following questions: Under what conditions is the drug war used to repress labor unions and, in the process, increase income inequality in Latin America? What political mechanisms in the United States create linkages among drug enforcement, income inequality, poverty, mass incarceration, and corporate capital accumulation? In answering these questions, the chapter discusses the relationships among U.S. counternarcotic aid, the repression of workers’ rights, and income inequality in Latin America and the relationship between drug enforcement and income inequality in the United States. The chapter estimates data for twenty-one countries from Latin America, covering 2003 to 2012 using a time-series cross section (TSCS) statistical model and estimates data for the United States, covering 2000 to 2012 using TSCS and structural equation modeling. The statistical results show that increasing levels of counternarcotic aid to Latin American governments increases income inequality when the rights of workers are increasingly repressed. And increasing levels of drug enforcement in the United States is associated with increasing levels of income inequality, poverty, mass incarceration and corporate revenues generated from prison labor.

Relative and Absolute Deprivation’s Relationship With Violent Crime in the United States: Testing an Interaction Effect Between Income Inequality and Disadvantage

2017 ◽  
Vol 64 (4) ◽  
pp. 542-560 ◽  
Author(s):  
Bert Burraston ◽  
James C. McCutcheon ◽  
Stephen J. Watts
Keyword(s):  
Income Inequality ◽  
Violent Crime ◽  
Hierarchical Linear Modeling ◽  
Interaction Effect ◽  
Significant Interaction ◽  
Regression Models ◽  
Relative Deprivation ◽  
The United States ◽  
Linear Modeling ◽  
Using Data

Relative deprivation and absolute deprivation both have effects on crime. Although these two concepts are often treated as separate, some scholarship has suggested that the two may be complementary. The current study assesses whether the effects of relative and absolute deprivation interact statistically in their effect on violent crime by testing an interaction effect between income inequality and disadvantage. Using data from U.S. counties, hierarchical linear modeling (HLM) regression models show that there is a significant interaction between relative and absolute deprivation predicting violent crime rates. The plot of this interaction shows that when absolute deprivation is high, there is less violence in high inequality counties than in counties with medium levels of inequality. The implication of this finding is discussed.

Racial Inequality and Black Homicide: An Analysis of Felony, Nonfelony and Total Rates

1992 ◽  
Vol 8 (2) ◽  
pp. 150-165 ◽  
Author(s):  
Jay Corzine ◽  
Lin Huff-Corzine
Keyword(s):  
Income Inequality ◽  
Violent Crime ◽  
Significant Influence ◽  
Economically Disadvantaged ◽  
Racial Inequality ◽  
Perceptual Dimension ◽  
Homicide Rates ◽  
Disadvantaged Groups ◽  
Political Units ◽  
Racial Ethnic

Blau and Blau's (1982) suggestion that racial/ethnic economic inequality is an important source of violent crime has generated several empirical investigations during the last decade, but their findings have been inconclusive. In this study, we argue that their proposition should be tested for economically disadvantaged groups rather than for the total populations of political units. Consistent with recent reformulations of the frustration-aggression hypothesis, we predict that racial inequality has a stronger effect on nonfelony than felony homicide rates. Testing this idea for black homicide rates in SMS As, we indeed find that racial income inequality has a positive, significant influence on nonfelony homicides only. We conclude by recommending that future attempts at specifying the Blaus' model should focus on the perceptual dimension of the theory.

scholarly journals Mexico's Drug War Is Hindering The Growth Of The Retail Sector Of Texas Border Cities

2013 ◽  
Vol 12 (9) ◽  
pp. 995
Author(s):  
Rutilio Martinez
Keyword(s):  
Violent Crime ◽  
War On Drugs ◽  
Retail Sector ◽  
Retail Sales ◽  
Drug War ◽  
Texas Border

Between the first quarter of 2007 and the first quarter of 2012, the retail sales of Texas' border cities grew at an unprecedented low quarterly rate of 0.21%. Mexico's drug war contributed significantly to this low growth by hindering the growth of sales to Mexicans who cross the border to shop. This hindrance is likely to continue as long as Mexico's war on drugs continues to generate high levels of violent crime in the northern part of the country.

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