Cultural and Economic Sources of Homicide in the United States
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 2276480 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Larry Baron (0000-0003-2784-2163, University of California, Los Angeles), M A Straus (0000-0003-4200-589X, University of New Hampshire at Manchester), Murray A Strau (0000-0002-0106-7755) |
| Year | 1988 |
| Volume | 29 |
| Issue | 3 |
| Pages | 371-390 |
| Publication date | 1988-09-01 |
| Peer Reviewed | Yes |
| Open Access | Yes |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | Sociological Quarterly (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 0038-0253 • E-ISSN: 1533-8525 |
| Publisher | Informa UK Limited (PUBLISHER • GB) |
| DOI | 10.1111/j.1533-8525.1988.tb01259.x |
| OpenAlex | W2008519435 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 36 |
| References cited | 41 |
Are high rates of homicide better explained by cultural or economic factors? Some research suggests that a regional culture of violence underlies high rates of homicide, whereas other research suggests that poverty or economic inequality increases the likelihood of homicide. A major limitation of this body of research has been the failure of researchers to include an indicator of cultural support for violence that is analytically separate from measures of southern region. In this article, a 12-item Legitimate Violence Index (LVX) is introduced that measures cultural support for violence. Using the 50 states as the units of analysis, hypotheses derived from cultural and economic theories of homicide are investigated using multiple regression. Several additional variables are included in the analysis to control for spurious relationships. The results show that legitimate violence, poverty, and economic inequality are significantly associated with state-to-state differences in the incidence of homicide
Criminology · Demographic economics · Economic growth · Economic inequality · Economics · Environmental health · Homicide · Inequality · Poison control · Poverty · Sociology · Spurious relationship · State (computer science) · Statistics · Suicide prevention · Crime Patterns and Interventions · Mathematics · Medicine · Terrorism, Counterterrorism, and Political Violence · Wildlife Conservation and Criminology Analyses
Human Violence
"Acknowledging the "Zoological Connection
Behavioral sciences concepts in research on the prevention of violence
Homicide in Urban Canada
Policy, School Structure, and Sociodemographic Effects on Statewide High School Dropout Rates
Culture, Context, and Homicide of the Elderly
Discipline and Deviance
Four Theories of Rape
The Myth of Sexual Symmetry in Marital Violence
Law, social policy, and violence
Regional Differences in Attitudes toward Corporal Punishment
Exploring the Link between Corporal Punishment and Children's Cruelty to Animals
Violent Crime in Canada and the United States
The Southern Subculture of Punitiveness? Regional Variation in Support for Capital Punishment
Field Experiments Examining the Culture of Honor
Sociostructural Considerations of Domestic Femicide
Promoting tolerance and moral engagement through peer modeling
Profiling the politically violent in Pakistan
Regional differences in spanking experiences and attitudes
Regional Variations in Homicide, Capital Punishment, and Perceived Crime Severity in the United States
Slaughterhouses and Increased Crime Rates
Violence and U.S. regional culture
Beyond the individual
Poverty, Income Inequality, and Violent Crime
Human violence
Legitimate Violence or Agoraphobia? Re-Examining the Legitimate Violence Index
The Strength of Weak Indicators
Regional Naming Patterns and the Culture of Honor
Income inequality and population health
Legitimized aggression and sexual coercion
U.S. Southern and Northern Differences in Perceptions of Norms About Aggression
The Dominance of Individualism and Positivism
Social stress, normative constraints and alcohol problems in American States
Another look at the subculture of violence thesis
Crime Patterns between Tradition and Change
Measuring Structural Gender Equality in Mexico
The Interpretation of Cultures
Studies in ethnomethodology
Emile Durkheim, his life and work
Southern Violence
Patterns in Criminal Homicide
The Rules of Sociological Method
Distribution of Criminal Offenses in Sectional Regions
Age and Crime
Violent Crime
A Primer on Ethnomethodology
Delinquency in a Birth Cohort
Violence, Race, and Culture
The uniform crime reports revisited
Type of Homicide and Variation in Regional Rates
The Geography of Crime
Crime Rate and Social Integration The Impact of Metropolitan Mobility
An Errors‐in‐variable Model of the Effect of Poverty on Urban Homicide Rates
Poverty, Inequality, and City Homicide Rates
Poverty, Inequality, and the Urban Homicide Rate
Are Uniform Crime Reports a Valid Indicator of the Index Crimes? An Affirmative Answer With Minor Qualifications
Variations in Sex-Race-Age-Specific Incidence Rates of Offending
Homicide and a Regional Culture of Violence
Regional Subculture and Homicide
The Cost of Inequality
The Geography of Crime and Justice
Economic Sources of Homicide
To Live-and Die-in Dixie
Some Social Structure Determinants of Inconsistency between Attitudes and Behavior
Four Theories of Rape
A Primer on Ethnomethodology
Metropolitan Structure and Criminal Violence
Age and the Explanation of Crime
Regional and Racial Effects on the Urban Homicide Rate
| Unique citing works | 36 |
|---|---|
| Citations per year | 0,92 |
| Citation span | 1987 - 2025 (39) |
| Citation velocity | recent |
| Highly cited | No |
| Citation types | Neutral: 23 |