Regional Culture and Patterns of Homicide  

Oleh:

Loftin, Colin ; McDowall, David

Jenis: Article from Journal - ilmiah internasional
Dalam koleksi: Homicide Studies vol. 7 no. 4 (Nov. 2003), page 353-367.
Topik: subculture of violence; regional subculture
Fulltext: 353HS74.pdf (183.21KB)

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In 1998, Cohen described a study showingthat in the United States, regionally distributed culture controls the direction of the relationship between social stability and homicide rates. In the South andWest, where, accordingto Cohen, there is a culture of honor, strongcommunity and family bonds increase honor-related violence. Conversely, in the North, where the culture of honor is rare, strongsocial bonds restrain violence of all kinds. This article describes a reanalysis usingCohen’s data sources that finds little association between measures of social stability and homicide rates. Cohen’s findings are due to errors in the measurement of homicide that lead to an excessive number of zero values and a few extremely high values that heavily influence the slope estimates. Alternative estimates using larger counties or a logistic regression model that eliminates the impact of the extreme values lead to estimates that are inconsistent with the theory.

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