group mean homicide rates. With U.S. state-level panel data for the period 1995 - 2006, this paper fails to find a … significant homicide-reducing effect of death penalty. …

values of the time series for homicide, suicide and accidental death before and after the 1996 National Firearms Agreement …

has the violence against civilians over the period 1989-2010. Evidence on the participation of non-state combatants is …

Violence, as a human security threat, constitutes a core public health issue. Finally, in an era of globalized threats … requiring international cooperation, the discussion focuses on the interstate spillover effects of violence, or in other words …” in the 21st century; in particular our analysis focuses on the implications of the violence case study for …

The monopoly over the exercise of violence is the main defining element of states according to the Weberian ideal …