impoverished neighborhood, I examine the everyday violence and the responses of the population. Due to the deficient infrastructure …

Aim/purpose - This paper aims to examine with new empirical evidence the joint relationships between violence, income …, the results confirm a strong positive relationship between violence and income inequality. Conversely, a negative but non …-robust relationship exists between violence and real income per capita. Additionally, the findings show that human capital based on years …

, violent video games lead to decreases in violent crime. -- Video Games ; Violence ; Crime …

This paper develops a model of spatial violence diffusion when criminal organizations specialized in one illegal … violence triggered by the Mexican War on Drugs. The model predicts that violence will spread to locations with strategic value … this portfolio reallocation of illegal activities affected the spatial diffusion of violence. We show that violence …