, complemented by results from government surveys of recent arrestees in 22 cities plus administrative data for suicides, homicides …

After reaching a historic peak by the end of the 1990s, homicides in large cities in the state of São Paulo dropped …-25 age bracket and homicides at the statewide and at city levels, and argue that the relationship is causal. We estimate that … a 1% increase in the proportion of 15-to-24-year-old males causes a 4.5% increase in homicides. …

This document presents statistics and information related to homicides in Trinidad and Tobago. The presentation …

characteristics on homicides. The results show that areas with low homicides rates are surrounded by neighborhoods with high murder …

Mimicking the US in 1980 and 1990s, Brazil is a remarkable case of a major shift in homicides. After increasing … steadily throughout the 1990s and the beginning of the 2000s, homicides reached a peak in 2003, and then fell. I show a strong … state in the country, and whose shift in homicides has been particularly acute. City-level panel elasticities are similar to …

low birthweight and prematurity. Effects are found in both rural areas, where homicides are rare, and in urban areas …, where violence is endemic. Our estimates imply that homicides in Brazil are responsible for at least 0.5 percent of the …

instability in the structural determinants of homicides. In this context, a distinction is made in relation to the regimes that … effects show that socioeconomic variables tend to play an important role in explaining the variation of homicides in the non …-joint operation regime, the historical level of homicides and closeness to the U.S. border operate in a more significant way for those …

low birthweight and prematurity. Effects are found in both rural areas, where homicides are rare, and in urban areas …, where violence is endemic. Our estimates imply that homicides in Brazil are responsible for at least 0.5 percent of the …