Since the middle ages, when Europe was still at a Malthusian stage of development, interpersonal violence has been in … steady decline, and institutions and norms limiting violence – in particular property rights – have expanded. Here we put … forward a Malthusian model of violence where these trends can be interpreted as a response to easing population pressure …

The positive correlation between gun prevalence and homicide rates has been widely documented. But does this … endogeneity problems. When the problem is ignored, gun levels are associated with higher rates of gun homicide; when the problem … positive effect on homicide rates: ceteris paribus, more guns do not mean more crime. …

provided by the Furman and Gregg decisions and assess the relationship between execution and homicide rates in state panel data … cannot be reliably disentangled from the large year-to-year changes in the homicide rate caused by other factors. As such …