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Homicide in 110 nations : the development of the comparative crime data file
Published online by Cambridge University Press: 07 May 2025
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For a number of historical reasons research on the causes of crime has tended to be unfortunately insular and even ethnocentric. For example, almost all systematic research on the social, economic, and cultural origins of homicide has been done with respect to the experiences of single societies (18). While these investigations of an individual society are of great descriptive value, they do not by themselves result in general explanations and theories. In addition, researchers interested in homicide rates have lavished repeated attention on the data of a handful of nations — e.g., the U.S. and Great Britain — and neglected the inspection of a heterogeneous range of societies.
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- I. — Comparative Criminology: Global Perspectives
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This project and the development of the 110-Nation Comparative Crime Data File were supported by NIMH Grant Number MH 27427 from the Center for Studies of Crime and Delinquency, and by a Guggenheim Fellowship to the first author. Responsibility for the findings and interpretations in this paper belongs, of course, to the authors alone.
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