A Sex-Specific Analysis of Correlates of Homicide Victimization in United States Cities

1992 ◽  
Vol 7 (4) ◽  
pp. 279-286 ◽  
Author(s):  
M. D. Smith ◽  
Victoria E. Brewer
Keyword(s):  
United States ◽  
The United States ◽  
Public Health Approach ◽  
Homicide Rates ◽  
Central Cities ◽  
Male And Female ◽  
Homicide Victimization ◽  
Specific Analysis ◽  
Social Structural ◽  
Structural Risk

A considerable amount of research has been devoted to determining structural correlates of homicide across places in the United States. However, recent research has found that general correlates may not hold when homicide rates are disaggregated into analysis of specific groups. Adopting a public health approach, we explore the possibility that male and female rates of homicide victimization may show differential patterns of association with selected social-structural risk factors across a sample of U.S. central cities. The results show that both male and female homicide victimization is related to a general set of factors derived from the theoretical framework of social disorganization. At the same time, it is found that these factors are better predictors of male than female homicides. Suggestions are made for research to discern additional factors, perhaps distinct from those of men, related to the rather considerable variation in the prevalence of female homicide across communities in the United States.

A State-Level Analysis of Gender Inequality on Male and Female Homicide

2021 ◽  
pp. 001112872199182
Author(s):  
Matthew D. Moore ◽  
Mark H. Heirigs ◽  
Allison K. Barnes
Keyword(s):  
United States ◽  
Gender Inequality ◽  
State Level ◽  
The United States ◽  
Inequality Index ◽  
Homicide Rates ◽  
Male And Female ◽  
Homicide Victimization ◽  
The Relationship ◽  
Level Analysis

Inequalities have received a fair amount of study from criminologists interested in homicide and crime. The vast majority of the examinations exploring the relationship between inequality and homicide and crime have examined income inequality. Nonetheless, feminist theorists have stated that gender inequality may be predictive of all violence, not just female victimization. The UNDP gender inequality index was replicated for states in the United States and applied to overall, male, and female homicide rates. The findings demonstrate that increased gender inequality is predictive of increased overall, male, and female homicide. These findings illustrate that gender inequality is predictive of overall, male, and female homicide victimization.

The Opioid Epidemic and Homicide in the United States

2021 ◽  
pp. 002242782098684
Author(s):  
Richard Rosenfeld ◽  
Joel Wallman ◽  
Randolph Roth
Keyword(s):  
United States ◽  
Death Rate ◽  
The United States ◽  
Opioid Epidemic ◽  
Drug Markets ◽  
Cross Sectional ◽  
Homicide Rates ◽  
Overdose Death ◽  
Sectional Analysis ◽  
The Relationship

Objectives: Evaluate the relationship between the opioid epidemic and homicide rates in the United States. Methods: A county-level cross-sectional analysis covering the period 1999 to 2015. The race-specific homicide rate and the race-specific opioid-related overdose death rate are regressed on demographic, social, and economic covariates. Results: The race-specific opioid-related overdose death rate is positively associated with race-specific homicide rates, net of controls. The results are generally robust across alternative samples and model specifications. Conclusions: We interpret the results as reflecting the violent dynamics of street drug markets, although more research is needed to draw definitive conclusions about the mechanisms linking opioid demand and homicide.

My Brother’s Reaper: Examining Officially Reported Siblicide Incidents in the United States, 2000–2007

2014 ◽  
Vol 29 (3) ◽  
pp. 523-540 ◽  
Author(s):  
Jeffrey A. Walsh ◽  
Jessie L. Krienert
Keyword(s):  
United States ◽  
Theoretical Foundation ◽  
Empirical Studies ◽  
The United States ◽  
Male And Female ◽  
Sibling Violence ◽  
Extreme Form ◽  
Older Brothers ◽  
Intrafamilial Violence ◽  
Frequent Offenders

With higher rates than any other form of intrafamilial violence, Hoffman and Edwards (2004) note, sibling violence “constitutes a pandemic form of victimization of children, with the symptoms often going unrecognized and the effect ignored” (p. 187). Approximately 80% of children reside with at least one sibling (Kreider, 2008), and in its most extreme form sibling violence manifests as siblicide. Siblicide is poorly understood with fewer than 20 empirical studies identified in the extant literature since 1980 (see Eriksen & Jensen, 2006). The present work employs 8 years of Supplemental Homicide Report (SHR) data, 2000–2007, with siblicide victims and offenders age 21 years and younger, to construct contemporary victim and offender profiles examining incident characteristics. Findings highlight the sex-based nature of the offense with unique victimization patterns across victims and offenders. Older brothers using a firearm are the most frequent offenders against both male and female siblings. Strain as a theoretical foundation of siblicide is offered as an avenue for future inquiry.

Inequality of Income and Rates of Violence in Caucasian and Black Groups

1996 ◽  
Vol 79 (3) ◽  
pp. 978-978 ◽  
Author(s):  
David Lester
Keyword(s):  
United States ◽  
United States Of America ◽  
The United States ◽  
Homicide Rates ◽  
Suicide Rates

From 1947 to 1972 in the United States of America, inequality of income was associated with lower Caucasian homicide rates and lower black suicide rates.

scholarly journals Changes in the prevalence of mood and anxiety disorders among male and female current smokers in the United States: 1990–2001

2014 ◽  
Vol 24 (7) ◽  
pp. 493-497 ◽  
Author(s):  
Renee D. Goodwin ◽  
Melanie M. Wall ◽  
Tse Choo ◽  
Sandro Galea ◽  
Jonathan Horowitz ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
United States ◽  
Anxiety Disorders ◽  
The United States ◽  
Male And Female ◽  
Mood And Anxiety Disorders

Roadblocks

2019 ◽  
pp. 125-136
Author(s):  
Allan Metcalf
Keyword(s):  
United States ◽  
General Public ◽  
English Language ◽  
The United States ◽  
The Other ◽  
Feminist Movement ◽  
Male And Female ◽  
Neutral Object ◽  
Starting Point ◽  
Gradual Expansion

For the most part, the gradual expansion of the meaning of “guy” to include everyone, male and female and GLBTQ, has slipped by without particular notice by the general public, and even by linguists. There’s no mystery about Guy Fawkes being the starting point that leads as far from that beginning as groups of women calling each other “you guys,” but neither is there much interest—except in two quarters that object: the feminist movement and the Old South of the United States. Feminists who want the inherently sexist English language to become gender neutral object to the expansion of “guys” to include women as well as men. As a result, some people try to avoid “guys,” though the alternatives aren’t that obvious, at best a plain “you all.” The other objection comes from Southerners, who don’t so much object to “guys” as keep to their well-established older alternative “y’all.” The boundary between “guys” or “you guys” and “y’all” has remained firm for the last century, perhaps getting its strength as one last means of holding the line against the northern states.

A cross-national comparison of the relative influence of male and female age on the frequency of marital intercourse

1982 ◽  
Vol 14 (1) ◽  
pp. 1-6 ◽  
Author(s):  
J. Richard Udry ◽  
Fred R. Deven ◽  
Samuel J. Coleman
Keyword(s):  
United States ◽  
The United States ◽  
Relative Influence ◽  
Female Age ◽  
Male And Female ◽  
Probable Explanation ◽  
National Comparison ◽  
Most Probable Explanation ◽  
Androgen Levels ◽  
Cross National

SummaryParallel analyses of recent data from the United States, Thailand, Belgium, and Japan all confirm the finding that female age and not male age is the more important contributor to the decline in frequency of marital intercourse during the childbearing ages. The most probable explanation is the decline in female (but not male) androgen levels during the age span examined.

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