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Several theories have been offered to explain the recent declines in violent crime rates in the United States. We hypothesize that technological innovations, which improved information transmission and shortened the response time between an aggravated assault incident and treatment, reduced the...
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effects on homicides are documented across three sources of homicide data. …
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relationship between child access prevention (CAP) laws and firearm-related homicides committed by juveniles. Our results suggest … that CAP laws are associated with a 19 percent reduction in juvenile firearm-related homicides. The estimated effect is … that CAP laws are associated with firearm-related homicides committed by adults or with non-firearm-related homicides …
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analysis of homicides rate during 2000- 2010 is undertaken through the inclusion of temporal dynamic characteristics in a … that affects the demographic dynamics and social connectivity of the last decade that affects homicides and their temporal … density of young population and low coverage in secondary education affect the diffusion and concentration of homicides in …
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In this paper, we investigate the effect of student exposure to homicides on their educational performance and human … exposure to homicides in the public way on these outcomes. Using within-school and within-corridor estimates, we show that … and Portuguese language and increases dropout rates. We construct measures of student exposure to homicides on their way …
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. We examine the case of the drug war in Mexico, which dramatically increased the number of homicides since late 2006 … evidence that increases in homicides have led to out-migration, at the domestic level. We also find little evidence of …
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The study investigates the role of security officers and the police in dampening the effect of insecurity on homicides … lessen the effect of political instability and perception of criminality on homicides. Second , an extended analysis with … the impact of both insecurity dynamics on homicides. The concept of threshold represents the critical mass at which the …
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Brazilian homicide rates are among the highest in the world, inclusive of actual war zones. However, the character of Brazil's violence is changing. Recent analyses highlight a trend of dispersion of violence such that homicide rates in urban areas, traditionally the most violent places, have...
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persistence in homicides. The focus is on a global sample of 163 countries for the period 2010 to 2015. The empirical evidence is … persistence in homicides is sub-Saharan Africa (SSA), followed by Latin America, the Middle East and North Africa (MENA) and then … account for persistence in global homicides: crime, political instability and weapons import positively affect homicides …
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health indicators. Taking 2017 as a reference, we estimate that homicides related to drug prohibition lead to a reduction in …
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