We build on literature from policy and academic circles to assess whether Latin America is
leading when it comes to persistence in homicides. The focus is on a global sample of 163 …

Background Since 1990, the world's homicide rate has declined by nearly 20%. While prior
research has documented parallel homicide declines across many individual countries, the …

Crime is often considered a behavior of teenagers and young adults, peaking in
adolescence, and declining with age. A growing body of research, however, has …

Este trabajo realiza un análisis empírico sobre las tendencias del homicidio en los últimos
20 años y el funcionamiento de las instituciones para su contención. Se investiga la …

The age–crime curve has been regarded as a stylized fact of the age–crime relationship.
However, recent studies have found that some Asian countries have an age–crime …

Economic inequality is a persistent structural covariate of cross-national homicide rates. The
most common criminological explanation is that perceived inequality creates frustration …

This study examines the extent to which variations in homicide rates across Europe,
particularly differences between Western and Eastern Europe, can be explained by …

Is there an association between the proportion of the population that is young and national
homicide rates, and when testing other theories cross-nationally is it necessary to control for …

Recent systematic research indicated percent of the population that is young is not
significantly associated with cross-national homicide victimization rates. However, there are …

This article explores whether there was a universal increase in homicide victimization in
2014 to 2016 and 2019 to 2020. Although the United States observed increases in homicide …