Despite the widespread debate about crime in Brazil and the alarming increase in homicides in recent years, few studies … may be due to issues of endogeneity when estimating the relationship between securi ty spending and the rate of homicides … security expenditure leads to a decrease of 0.6 per 100,000 people in the number of homicides. …

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 …

. 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 …