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Homicide Studies Volume 4 Issue 2

Subject Areas: Pathology and Forensic Medicine; ; ; ;
Publisher: Sage Publications, Inc. - SAGE
ISSN: 1088-7679
SJR: 49

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The Structural Sources of Urban Female Violence in the United States

STEFFENSMEIER, DARRELL; HAYNIE, DANA L.

2000 Homicide Studies: An Interdisciplinary & International Journal

doi:10.1177/1088767900004002001

The present study departs from previous prior macrolevel research on homicide—which has targeted either total homicide rates or male homicide offending rates—by (a) disaggregating the homicide crime rate across U.S. cities by gender and age, (b) examining the effects of structural disadvantage...
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Uncleared Homicides

REGOECZI, WENDY C.; KENNEDY, LESLIE W.; SILVERMAN, ROBERT A.

2000 Homicide Studies: An Interdisciplinary & International Journal

doi:10.1177/1088767900004002002

Beginning in the 1960s, there has been a marked decline in clearance rates of homicides, a finding that has generated little interest among criminological researchers. This article presents a comparative analysis of homicide clearance in Canada and the United States using data generated by the...
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Homicide and Nativity

SORENSON, SUSAN B.; LEW, VIVIAN

2000 Homicide Studies: An Interdisciplinary & International Journal

doi:10.1177/1088767900004002003

Immigration has been associated with crime. Whether immigrants are more involved than native-born persons in violent crime, in general, and in homicide, in particular, is less clear. The authors addressed the latter question by examining the 9,442 homicides from 1990 to 1994 in Los Angeles...
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Long-Term Nonrelationship of Widespread and Increasing Firearm Availability to Homicide in the United States

KATES, DON B.; POLSBY, DANIEL D.

2000 Homicide Studies: An Interdisciplinary & International Journal

doi:10.1177/1088767900004002004

This article seeks to examine the common view that widespread availability of firearms is a major cause, or even the principal cause, of high American rates of homicide. Reasonably accurate data as to both homicide rates and the acquisition and ownership of firearms in the United States are...

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