Acceptance of killing and homicide rates in nineteen nations

Acceptance of killing and homicide rates in nineteen nations.

BACKGROUND International variation in homicide rates may be attributable to cultural differences in acceptance of moral justifications for killing. The aim of this study is to investigate the relationships between measures of attitudes towards the justification of killing and homicide rates in diverse international populations. METHODS Four studies assessed variations in acceptance of killing...

Religious Cosmologies and Homicide Rates among Nations

Although religion has been viewed as playing an important role in the maintenance of moral order, the most recent analysis of variation in homicide rates among nations argues that homicide is facilitated by high levels of religiosity (Paul). That analysis, however, was based on scatter-plots for eighteen “prosperous nations” and focused primarily on the United States compared to “secular” natio...

Clearing Up Homicide Clearance Rates

Juvenile homicide in America: how can we stop the killing?

Juvenile homicide remains a serious problem in the U.S., despite recent decreases in the juvenile arrest rate for murder. Reflecting on her clinical experiences evaluating 90 adolescent murderers, the author identifies 15 factors that appear to have contributed to the escalation in juvenile homicide beginning in the mid-1980s. These factors can be grouped into five categories: situational facto...

Killing the competition : Female/female and male/male homicide.

Sex- and age-specific rates of killing unrelated persons of one's own sex were computed for Canada (1974-1983), England/Wales (1977-1986), Chicago (1965-1981), and Detroit (1972) from census information and data archives of all homicides known to police. Patterns in relation to sex and age were virtually identical among the four samples, although the rates varied enormously (from 3.7 per millio...