The Social Production of Criminal Homicide: A Comparative Study of Disaggregated Rates in American Cities

Williams, Kirk R.; Flewelling, Robert L.

doi:10.2307/2095649

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“…Relationships characterized by closer social distance (e.g., family and friends) often involve more frequent interactions. Williams and Flewelling (1988) argued close relations (e.g., family member, lover, and close friend) protect individuals from certain forms of instrumental violence (e.g., robbery) but, at the same time, expose individuals to greater risk for expressive forms of violence (e.g., violence stemming from jealousy, lovers' triangles, etc.). This finding does not hold up in the current research as it relates to drug-motivated events, presumably instrumental crimes.…”

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Exploring the Drugs-Homicide Connection

Varano

McCluskey

Patchin

et al. 2004

Journal of Contemporary Criminal Justice

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The relationship between drugs and homicide has been well documented for some period of time. Drugs can play many different roles in homicide events. Drug homicides are disaggregated into peripheral drug homicides and drug-motivated homicides. In the former, drugs were present at the scene or drugs were being used by the victim or offender but were not the central causal feature of the event. In the latter, the sale or use of drugs was the primary cause of the lethal interaction. Using multinomial logistic analysis, we analyze the extent to which individual, situational, and contextual factors discriminate between different drug-homicideevents. We found variables indicative of risky lifestyles were significant predictors of the different types of drug homicides. More important, findings suggest the variables considered in the multivariate model had different effects on different measures of the dependent variable. Policy implications are discussed.

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Section: Discussionmentioning

confidence: 99%

Exploring the Drugs-Homicide Connection

Varano

McCluskey

Patchin

et al. 2004

Journal of Contemporary Criminal Justice

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“…We accounted for crowding by including a measure of the percentage of households living in crowded conditions (defined as more than one person per room). We accounted for population size, as prior evidence suggests that larger cities will suffer from higher rates of crime (Baumer, Lauritsen, Rosenfeld, and Wright 1998;Liska and Bellair 1995;Ousey 1999;Sampson 1985;Sampson 1987;Williams and Flewelling 1988). Given that recent work by Land and colleagues has suggested that college towns exhibit a different trajectory of crime,…”

Section: Independent Variablesmentioning

confidence: 99%