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- Title
Homicide in urban Canada: Testing the impact of economic inequality and social disorganization.
- Authors
Kennedy, Leslie W.; Silverman, Robert A.; Forde, David R.
- Abstract
Homicide in Canada is regionally distributed, rising from east to west. This study demonstrates a reduction in the regional effect through a convergence in homicide rates between eastern, central, and western Canada in Census Metropolitan Areas with higher levels of inequality and social disorganization. The implications of the findings for research on homicide rates are discussed. Previous research has shown that violent crime is regionally distributed in Canada, rising from east to west. This east-west phenomenon generally persists over time for personal and property crimes. Informed by the debate on the importance of structural factors in explaining Canadian homicide rates the article deals with regional effects on homicide using an alternative social economy explanation. This explains the etiology of violence in terms of the variation in inequality and social disorganization measured by such factors as aggregate unemployment, urbanization, and poverty.
- Subjects
CANADA; HOMICIDE; SOCIAL structure; VIOLENT crimes; URBANIZATION; POVERTY
- Publication
Canadian Journal of Sociology, 1991, Vol 16, Issue 4, p397
- ISSN
0318-6431
- Publication type
Article
- DOI
10.2307/3340961