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POPULATION DIVERSITY AND CROSS‐NATIONAL HOMICIDE: THE EFFECTS OF INEQUALITY AND HETEROGENEITY *
Author(s) -
AVISON WILLIAM R.,
LORING PAMELA L.
Publication year - 1986
Publication title -
criminology
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 3.467
H-Index - 139
eISSN - 1745-9125
pISSN - 0011-1384
DOI - 10.1111/j.1745-9125.1986.tb01509.x
Subject(s) - homicide , inequality , ethnic group , demographic economics , economic inequality , diversity (politics) , population , economics , geography , demography , poison control , human factors and ergonomics , sociology , mathematics , medicine , environmental health , mathematical analysis , anthropology
This study examines the impact of income inequality and ethnic heterogeneity on homicide rates for a sample of 32 nations. The results of the analyses indicate that vertical social direrentiation, as measured by income inequality, and horizontal differentiation, as indexed by ethnic heterogeneity, have signijicant main effects on cross‐national homicide. Additionally, evidence is presented suggesting an interaction effect on inequaliry and heterogeneity on homicide. It appears that increased ethnic heterogeneity exacerbates the impact of income inequality on homicide rates.