relationship between women's employment status and their well-being as measured by freedom from marital violence yields an … and their ownership of property, respectively, on spousal violence. Unlike the existing literature, we treat women's work … status and violence as simultaneously determined and find that women's engagement in paid work and ownership of property, are …

Crime, violence, and insecurity are perceived as society's biggest problems in contemporary Costa Rica. This degree of …Gewalt und Kriminalität werden in der costaricanischen Öffentlichkeit heute als die größte gesellschaftliche Bedrohung …

been transformed into a battleground for social violence - that is, on the belief that an alarming 'crime wave' is …Kultur der Angst und Kontrolle in Costa Rica (II): Der Diskurs über Gewalt und sozialer Wandel. Der costaricanische … öffentliche Diskurs über Gewalt und Kriminalität stützt sich vor allem auf die Prämisse, dass sich die ehemals gewaltlose Nation …

reduces both moderate and extreme violence. The reason is that a high penalty keeps relatively 'gutless' individuals from … relatively 'tough' individuals to commit moderately violent acts and so makes moderate violence more attractive for otherwise …

The level of violence in the National Hockey League (NHL) reached its highest point in 1987 and has reduced somewhat … information from several databases 1996-2007, the incentives for violence in North American ice hockey are analyzed. We examine …

conflict-affected countries. This module will enable researchers to address specific violence-related issues comparatively … survey designs in conflict-affected areas. We review existing conflict- and violence-related questionnaires, with a special … in order to deepen the understanding of the nature of violent conflict and the channels whereby conflict and violence …

This paper studies migration decisions of very poor households in an environment with a high level of violence. By … matching detailed retrospective data on violence levels in Colombian rural municipalities with a household survey collected for … problems of the sample and the key issue of endogeneity of violence. The main results show that high levels of violence …

level of violence, an outlier among the oil countries as a whole. It applies a newly elaborated 'context approach' that … with a moderate increase in internal violence in Venezuela are subsequently analyzed, in the second part of the paper, from …, and corruption. On the other hand, oil has triggered violence-primarily through socioeconomic causal mechanisms (central …