Violence and Crime in Cross-National Perspective, 1900-1974

Archer, Dane; Gartner, Rosemary

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“…Additional evidence that the parasite-stress theory is relevant to cross-national variation in homicide comes from the classic study of homicide by Archer & Gartner [60], which provided the first data for homicide rates across many countries. Their data covered the period of 1900-early 1970s.…”

Section: Male Lifespanmentioning

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Parasite stress promotes homicide and child maltreatment

Thornhill

Fincher

2011

Phil. Trans. R. Soc. B

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Researchers using the parasite-stress theory of human values have discovered many cross-cultural behavioural patterns that inform a range of scholarly disciplines. Here, we apply the theory to major categories of interpersonal violence, and the empirical findings are supportive. We hypothesize that the collectivism evoked by high parasite stress is a cause of adult-on-adult interpersonal violence. Across the US states, parasite stress and collectivism each positively predicts rates of men's and women's slaying of a romantic partner, as well as the rate of male-honour homicide and of the motivationally similar felony-related homicide. Of these four types of homicide, wealth inequality has an independent effect only on rates of male-honour and felony-related homicide. Parasite stress and collectivism also positively predict cross-national homicide rates. Child maltreatment by caretakers is caused, in part, by divestment in offspring of low phenotypic quality, and high parasite stress produces more such offspring than low parasite stress. Rates of each of two categories of the child maltreatment-lethal and non-lethal-across the US states are predicted positively by parasite stress, with wealth inequality and collectivism having limited effects. Parasite stress may be the strongest predictor of interpersonal violence to date.

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Section: Male Lifespanmentioning

confidence: 99%

Parasite stress promotes homicide and child maltreatment

Thornhill

Fincher

2011

Phil. Trans. R. Soc. B

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“…Substantial variation across countries in legal definitions has increasingly lead researchers (Archer and Gartner 1984;Huang and Wellford 1989;Lynch 1995) to rely on homicide data in cross-national comparative research. There is now substantial agreement (Kalish 1988;Neapolitan 1997;Messner and Rosenfeld 1997) in Table 1 and controlling for time the exponential trend seen in Figure 1.…”

Section: Homicide Datamentioning

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Democracy and Crime: A Multilevel Analysis of Homicide Trends in Forty-Four Countries, 1950-2000

LaFree

Tseloni²

2006

The ANNALS of the American Academy of Political and Social Scie

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“…First, military training teaches young men obedience and discipline, which could directly affect their rates of criminality. Second, by improving health and 1 Young people and males are much more likely than aged people and females to commit crime (Archer and Gartner, 1984;Clinard and Abbott, 1973;Hirschi and Gottfredson, 1983). In the US, for example, persons aged between 18 and 24 accounted for 28 percent of total property crime arrests, and 77 percent of all arrestees were male (Pastore and Maguire, 2003).…”

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Conscription and Crime: Evidence from the Argentine Draft Lottery

2010

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SummaryWe estimate the causal effect of mandatory participation in the military service on the involvement in criminal activities. We exploit the random assignment of young men to military service in Argentina through a draft lottery to identify this causal effect. Using a unique set of administrative data that includes draft eligibility, participation in the military service, and criminal records, we find that participation in the military service increases the likelihood of developing a criminal record in adulthood. The effects are not only significant for the cohorts that performed military service during war times, but also for those that provided service at peace times. We also find that military service has detrimental effects on future performance in the labor market. Keywords: Military Service, Violent behavior, Crime JEL Classification: K42This paper was presented at the international conference on "Economics of Culture, Institutions and Crime", Milan, 20-22 January 2010 AbstractWe estimate the causal effect of mandatory participation in the military service on the involvement in criminal activities. We exploit the random assignment of young men to military service in Argentina through a draft lottery to identify this causal effect. Using a unique set of administrative data that includes draft eligibility, participation in the military service, and criminal records, we find that participation in the military service increases the likelihood of developing a criminal record in adulthood. The effects are not only significant for the cohorts that performed military service during war times, but also for those that provided service at peace times. We also find that military service has detrimental effects on future performance in the labor market.JEL Classification: K42

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Violence and Crime in Cross-National Perspective, 1900-1974

Cited by 77 publications

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Parasite stress promotes homicide and child maltreatment

Parasite stress promotes homicide and child maltreatment

Democracy and Crime: A Multilevel Analysis of Homicide Trends in Forty-Four Countries, 1950-2000

Conscription and Crime: Evidence from the Argentine Draft Lottery

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