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  • Countries where Women Have more Positive Interactions with Economic Decisions and Legal Rights Have Lower Homicide Rates: an Exploratory Study

    Author(s)
    Narvey, C
    Piquero, NL
    Piquero, AR
    Griffith University Author(s)
    Piquero, Alex R.
    Year published
    2020
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    Abstract
    Women’s struggle for equal legal rights, which is a critical component of their own economic growth, has always been a pressing social and human rights issue. While gains have been made for some women, important variability remains not only within nations but also across nations. How this accessibility manifests itself in social outcomes however, has received little attention. One important outcome that is of significant concern throughout the world is homicide. In this paper, we link women’s rights to overall homicide rates. We use cross-national data for almost two hundred countries spanning the world’s regions to investigate ...
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    Women’s struggle for equal legal rights, which is a critical component of their own economic growth, has always been a pressing social and human rights issue. While gains have been made for some women, important variability remains not only within nations but also across nations. How this accessibility manifests itself in social outcomes however, has received little attention. One important outcome that is of significant concern throughout the world is homicide. In this paper, we link women’s rights to overall homicide rates. We use cross-national data for almost two hundred countries spanning the world’s regions to investigate whether countries where women experience more gender discrimination in economic and family decisions have higher homicide rates. Using finite mixture modeling, we find significant variation in a discrimination index and that countries grouped by their level of discrimination experience significantly different overall homicide rates. In countries with the least discrimination, we found the lowest overall average homicide rate.
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    Journal Title
    Journal of Family Violence
    DOI
    https://doi.org/10.1007/s10896-020-00148-2
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    This publication has been entered into Griffith Research Online as an Advanced Online Version.
    Subject
    Criminology
    Psychology
    Publication URI
    http://hdl.handle.net/10072/393856
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