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 …

Data reliability and validity are methodological concerns in cross-national analyses of crime,
but there is little agreement on which source of data provides the most reliable estimates …

Violent crime in Mexico occurs at a rate that dwarfs the human costs of most contemporary
civil wars, and the drug cartels responsible for the violence exercise de facto control over …

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 …

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 …

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 …