TY  - JOUR
PY  - 1998//
TI  - The structural covariates of urban homicide: reassessing the impact of income inequality and poverty in the post-Reagan era
JO  - Criminology
A1  - Kovandzic, Tomislav Victor
A1  - Vieraitis, L. M.
A1  - Yeisley, M. R.
SP  - 569
EP  - 599
VL  - 36
IS  - 3
N2  - Numerous studies have explored the relationship between rates of homicide and income inequality and poverty. However; a general consensus on the theoretical and empirical connections among these variables has yet to be reached. This article reports the findings of a city-level analysis of this relationship, using 1990 data for the 190 largest cities in the United Stares. In order to address several methodological and theoretical concerns in prior literature, three separate measures of inequality and three categories of disaggregated homicide rates are analyzed. The results suggest that both inequality and poverty have significant and independent positive effects on rates of homicide in U.S. cities following the largess increase in the economic gap between rich nd poor in our nation's history.<p /> <p>Language: en</p>
LA  - en
SN  - 0011-1384
UR  - http://dx.doi.org/10.1111/j.1745-9125.1998.tb01259.x
ID  - ref1
ER  -