Homicide and a Regional Culture of Violence
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 5250293 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Raymond D Gastil (corresponding author) |
| Year | 1971 |
| Volume | 36 |
| Issue | 3 |
| Pages | 412 |
| Publication date | 1971-06-01 |
| Peer Reviewed | Yes |
| Open Access | No |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | American Sociological Review (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 0003-1224 • E-ISSN: 1939-8271 |
| Publisher | SAGE Publications Inc (PUBLISHER) |
| DOI | 10.2307/2093082 |
| OpenAlex | W2056962891 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 237 |
| References cited | 7 |
The homicide rate in the United States has been very high relative to the rest of the modernized world for as far back as evidence is available. It has long been known that in the United States there is a wide variation in the rates of different races and between North and South. Both qualitative historical evidence and multiple regressions indicate that the degree of Southerness in the culture of the population of the states accounts for more of the variation in homicide rates than do other factors such as income, education, percent urban, or age. It is suggested that high homicide rates in the United States today are related primarily to the persistence of Southern cultural traditions developed before the Civil War and subsequently spreading over much of the country
Homicide · Crime Patterns and Interventions · Gun Ownership and Violence Research · Homicide, Infanticide, and Child Abuse
Homicide in Urban Canada
Historical Trends in Violent Crime
Subculture of Violence Theory
Southern Subculture of Violence Theory
Enemy Within
Fundamentals of Criminological and Criminal Justice Inquiry
The Southern Subculture of Punitiveness? Regional Variation in Support for Capital Punishment
Gender Equality and Gendered Homicides
Race and Criminal Violence
Police use of force
Self-Protection and the Culture of Honor
Field Experiments Examining the Culture of Honor
Temperature and aggression
Don’t Tread on Me
Street Youth and Criminal Violence
The impact of gun control and gun ownership levels on violence rates
Victims of violent death
Homicide in the Russian Empire and Soviet Union
Randall Collins’ micro-sociology, the Southern culture of honor, and the codes of violence pathway
The Futility of Shooting Down Strawmen
Beyond the Dichotomy
Because we were angry
Living Dangerously
Social Stress and Mortality among Nonwhite Males
Verwerfungen in der klassischen Moderne — der US-amerikanische Süden als Problemfall in der Debatte um die „Multiple Modernities“
Challenging cultures of violence through community restorative justice in Northern Ireland
Violent Crime
Suicide and Homicide among Native Americans
The Relationship of Regional Cultures to Educational Performance
The Spatial Concentration of Southern Whites and Argument-Based Lethal Violence
Crime in a Convict Republic
Violent crime rate studies in philosophical context
Law, social policy, and violence
Religious Affiliations and Homicide
Violent-Crime Rates and Racial Composition
Regional and Racial Effects on the Urban Homicide Rate
Gun Ownership and the 'Southern Subculture of Violence
Structural Covariates of Homicide Rates
A Theory of the Emergence, Persistence, and Expression of Geographic Variation in Psychological Characteristics
Evolution and the capacity for commitment
Understanding the Situational Context for Interpersonal Violence
Mobility of Robbery and Burglary Offenders
Crowding and Urban Crime Rates
The Effects of Interstate Migration On Suicide
Justifiable Arrests or Discretionary Justice
Gun Cultures or Honor Cultures? Explaining Regional and Race Differences in Weapon Carrying
Slavery's Enduring Legacy
L’aigle et le castor
Of Contingencies and Breaks
The philosophy of Be, Know , and Do in forming the 21st-century military war-front competencies
Dixie's Martial Image
Assessing Macro-Level Predictors and Theories of Crime
Regional Differences in Attitudes toward Corporal Punishment
Homicide and the Family
Teaching criminological theory
The social and cultural psychology of honour
Geophysical Variables and Behavior
Which States Have a Death Penalty
Violent Cultural Factors and Serial Homicide by Males
Regional Differences in Sodomy Laws
To Die with Your Boots On
Southern Subculture, Personal Violence (Suicide and Homicide), and Firearms
Some Further Evidence on Homicide and a Regional Culture of Violence
Mortality from Suicide and Homicide for African Americans in the USA
Violence and U.S. regional culture
A descriptive analysis of homicides committed during civil unrest in the United States in 2020
Separate, Unequal, and Uncorrelated
Breaks and Convergence in U.S. Regional Crime Rates
Pathways to violence
Vocabularies of Legitimation
The legitimation of violence
Canadian Male Street Skinheads
Crime in Canada and in the United States
The transformation of pro-violence norms
Region of birth, migration and homicide rates of African Americans
Sociodemographic and geographic patterns of firearm suicide in the United States, 1989–1993
Living and dying among african american males
Ethnic Group Differences in Police Notification About Intimate Partner Violence
The Factors Affecting Sexual Assaults Committed by Strangers and Acquaintances
A Summary of Personal Protection Order Statutes in the United States
Comparative mainstreaming? Mapping the uses of the comparative method in social policy, sociology and political science since the 1970s
Regional differences in spanking experiences and attitudes
Violent Crime in the Western Energy-Development Region
Regional Variations in Homicide, Capital Punishment, and Perceived Crime Severity in the United States
Regional variation in the effect of structural factors on homicide in rural areas
What determines crime rates? An empirical test of integrated economic and sociological theories of criminal behavior
Durkheim, individualism and homicide rates re‐examined
Felony Murder
Koncepcja podkultury przemocy a wyjaśnianie przestępczości agresywnej
An Empirical Test of the Subculture of Violence and Miller's Theory of Lower Class Delinquency
Mexican‐American homicide in phoenix, 1980–1991
From Slavery to Social Class to Disadvantage
Homicide and property crime
Homicides and race riots
Firearm-related fatalities
Note on the problem of construct validity in assessing the usefulness of child maltreatment report data
The subculture of violence and ethnicity
Public perceptions of interpersonal violence
Internal colonization, folk justice, and murder in Appalachia
Analysis of the factors influencing multiple uses of crime guns
| Unique citing works | 237 |
|---|---|
| Citations per year | 4,31 |
| Citation span | 1971 - 2026 (56) |
| Citation velocity | current |
| Highly cited | Yes |
| Citation types | Neutral: 235 |