INEQUALITY, WELFARE STATE, AND HOMICIDE: FURTHER SUPPORT FOR THE INSTITUTIONAL ANOMIE THEORY*

By J. Savolainen. 2000

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Subfields: Sociology and Political Science

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Self-reported youth delinquency in Europe and beyond: First results of the Second International Self-Report Delinquency Study in the context of police and victimization data (2010, background): “The criterion of decommodification has turned out to be a very useful criterion to use in international comparative studies (Messner and Rosenfeld, 1997; Savolainen, 2000).”
Reassessing the Cross-National Relationship Between Income Inequality and Homicide Rates: Implications of Data Quality Control in the Measurement of Income Distribution (2002, methodology): “This time period is chosen for these analyses for consistency with past research ( Savolainen, 2000 ).”
Structural Covariates of Homicide Rates (2007, background): “As Messner and Rosenfeld (1997) noted, European countries’ political institutions are characterized by Esping-Anderson’s (1990) concept of decommodification—the efforts by governments to reduce the hardships of economic downturns on society’s members by providing financial (welfare) support (Maume &”
Cross-National Predictors of Crime: A Meta-Analysis (2011, background): “…1982 Pridemore 2008 Hartnagel and Mizanuddin 1986 Rahav 1983 He, Cao, Wells, and Maguire 2003 Savage, Bennett, and Danner 2008 Howard and Smith 2003 Savolainen 2000 Huang 1995 Shichor 1990 Jacobs and Richardson 2008 Sun, Sung, and Chu 2007 Jensen 2001 Unnithan and Whitt 1992 Kick and LaFree 1985…”
Deciding to Bribe: A Cross-Level Analysis of Firm and Home Country Influences on Bribery Activity (2007, background): “The conceptual premises of anomie theory also suggest interactive relationships among social institutions and cultural values (Savolainen, 2000).”
National Rates of Opportunity Entrepreneurship Activity: Insights from Institutional Anomie Theory (2014, background): “According to theory, redistribution disengages people from dependency on competitive market forces (Savolainen, 2000) by protecting them from the fickleness and variability of the market (Messner & Rosenfeld, 1997, p. 1394).”
Anomie, Social Change and Crime. A Theoretical Examination of Institutional-Anomie Theory (2002, background): “Two recent studies indicate that social stratification specifies the effect of market dominance in the institutional balance of power on crime rates (Chamblin and Cochran 1995; Savolainen 2000).”