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 …

Abstract Latin America and the Caribbean (LAC) possesses 8 per cent of the global
population but approximately one-third of global homicides. The region also exhibits high …

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 …

Scholars have investigated the escalation of violence associated with cocaine trafficking.
Despite the plethora of literature on the matter, limited attention has been paid to the …

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

Cross-national research on the relationship between alcohol consumption and homicide
focuses on (a) the amount of alcohol consumed rather than the manner of consumption and …

Purpose–This chapter explains what is known about international homicide trends,
highlights gaps in existing literature, and proposes avenues for future research that will …

Although there has been a growing literature on the effects of culture on the cross‐national
variation of homicide, this literature remains limited in the operationalization of national …

Gender inequality is a central concept in cross-national feminist criminological literature.
There is not a readily agreed-upon operationalization of gender inequality. The variation in …