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Criminology and Criminal Justice
City University of New York (CUNY)
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Cross-national Research; Lethal Violence; Multilevel Analysis
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Exploring The Effects Of Strain On Cross-National Lethal Violence: An Integrated Model, Catrin Andersson
Exploring The Effects Of Strain On Cross-National Lethal Violence: An Integrated Model, Catrin Andersson
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Lethal violence is a global problem. In 2012, the United Nations documented 437,000 homicides worldwide (United Nations Office on Drugs and Crime, 2014b), and in 2012, the World Health Organization reported that there were 800,000 suicides internationally (World Health Organization, 2015c). There is a large body of research on violence in the social sciences. Although suicide and homicide are often studied separately, they have been said to share many of the same correlates, such as inequality and divorce (e.g., inequality and divorce; Nivette, 2011; Stack, 2000). There is a need to integrate theories drawn from different disciplines to better understand …