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Homicide, Inequality, and Climate: Untangling the Relationships.

ABSTRACT: Researchers debate the causal connections between homicide, inequality, and temperature. This study examines these relationships globally based on country-level data. A new measure of inequality is introduced that provides a more granular measure of inequality patterns than commonly used metrics. The approach allows estimation of risk sensitive decision-making that helps to explain how class impacts violence under different climate conditions. The results indicate that homicide rates are higher when poorer segments of populations are disproportionately influenced by temperature, middle class segments are influenced by inequality, and the wealthy are influenced by middle and impoverished class dynamics.

SUBMITTER: Kuznar LA

PROVIDER: S-EPMC8386116 | biostudies-literature | 2021

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature

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Homicide, Inequality, and Climate: Untangling the Relationships.

Kuznar Lawrence A LA Day Jeffrey J

Frontiers in psychology 20210811

Researchers debate the causal connections between homicide, inequality, and temperature. This study examines these relationships globally based on country-level data. A new measure of inequality is introduced that provides a more granular measure of inequality patterns than commonly used metrics. The approach allows estimation of risk sensitive decision-making that helps to explain how class impacts violence under different climate conditions. The results indicate that homicide rates are higher ...[more]

PMID: 34456813

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Homicide, Inequality, and Climate: Untangling the Relationships.

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Homicide, Inequality, and Climate: Untangling the Relationships.

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