A METHODOLOGICAL ADDITION TO THE CROSS‐NATIONAL EMPIRICAL LITERATURE ON SOCIAL STRUCTURE AND HOMICIDE: A FIRST TEST OF THE POVERTY‐HOMICIDE THESIS*

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Income inequality and violent crime : evidence from Mexico's drug war (2014, unknown): “Moreover, Pridemore (2011) criticizes the large cross-country literature that studies the link between inequality and homicide rates as most of those fail to control for poverty rates, which is the most consistent predictor of area homicide rates in the US empirical literature.”
Cross-National Predictors of Crime: A Meta-Analysis (2011, methodology): “For instance, infant mortality has only recently been used as an indicator for absolute deprivation on the cross-national level (Pridemore, 2008), having previously represented concepts of social inequality (Lee & Bankston, 1999), health care (Shichor, 1990), and social disorganization (Jacobs &…”
Unemployment, Inequality, Poverty and Crime: Spatial Distribution Patterns of Criminal Acts in Belgium, 2001–06 (2011, background): “In the United States, homicide, too, has been found to be concentrated in poor regions, but this finding has not been repeated outside a US context (Kposowa et al. 1995; Kovandzic et al. 1998; Messner 2001; McCall and Nieuwbeerta 2007; Pridemore 2008).”