What is it about?
This paper examined how ecology predicted the observed homicide rates across countries. We found strong support for how the speed of individual development, as an outcome of living in an environment with few diseases, was associated with low economic inequality and high economic growth. These economic indicators influenced the level homicide on each country
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Why is it important?
The goal of this paper was to conciliate various perspectives concerning the role climate, diseases, economic inequality and growth have on homicide. Our findings suggest, although economic indicators have an direct effect on homicide, social and economic stability were predicted by the local ecology.
Perspectives
We hope the results published by this article, will encourage other people to examine how the interactions between indicators of economic development and ecological factors, influence social phenomena such as homicide.
Mateo Peñaherrera-Aguirre
University of Arizona
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This page is a summary of: A social biogeography of homicide: Multilevel and sequential canonical examinations of intragroup unlawful killings., Evolutionary Behavioral Sciences, October 2018, American Psychological Association (APA),
DOI: 10.1037/ebs0000122.
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