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Article: Income inequality and homicide rates in Canada and the United States.
- Article from:
- Canadian Journal of Criminology
- Article date:
- April 1, 2001
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Introduction
Several theoretical approaches in the social and biological sciences suggest that inequitable access to goods provokes antisocial behaviour and violence (Braithwaite 1979; Maynard Smith 1982; Runciman 1966; Wilkinson 1996; Wilkinson, Kawachi and Kennedy 1998; Wilson and Daly 1985). Homicide rates are highly variable between times and places (Archer and Gartner 1984), and Daly and Wilson (1988; 1997) have argued that much of this variability reflects the variable severity of interpersonal competition for limited material and social resources. Not only do many homicides occur in contexts, such as robbery and sexual rivalry, that are clearly ...