Sentences with phrase «homicide rates»

Well how about studies that show that income inequality is a predictor and possibly a determinant for homicide rates in Canada, for starters?

«Reflecting these tensions, rising homicide rates in several major American cities led to a deterioration in the homicide rate indicator, contributing to the decline in the US's peace score.»

As far as I can see homicide rates had been dropping until 2014.

Works by 14 artists touch upon a host of issues surrounding access to and use of firearms, examining and representing the role that guns continue to play in our national mythologies and pathologies, suicide and homicide rates, domestic violence, and mass media.

Although 8th street has long since gentrified, Southeast DC was infamous for having one of the highest homicide rates in the country.

Throughout the mid-20th century small - to - moderate correlational relationships can be observed between movie violence and homicide rates in the United States.

In the first study, movie violence and homicide rates are examined across the 20th century and into the 21st (1920 — 2005).

In the updated warning the State Department cited an increase in homicide rates as a result of targeted assassinations by criminal organizations, as well as turf battles that have resulted in violent crime in areas frequented by U.S. citizens and shooting incidents that have injured or killed innocent bystanders.

The State Department updated its travel warning August 22, replacing an earlier warning issued December 8, 2016, to include information on kidnappings, as well as rising homicide rates and drug - related violence.

Vancouver was an example where crime has been steadily decreasing after the city hit a decade - long record for homicide rates in 2012.

But here's something else that jumped out at me: «The past two decades have witnessed a drop in incidences of school violence, including homicide rates and violent crime.

While crack did not disappear altogether from American cities by the end of the century, it ceased to have a large impact on the graduation rates of black males because stabilization of markets reduced homicide rates markedly.

Dark States saw Louis travel back to the USA (source of so much material for him over the years) and investigate heroin addiction in small - town America, prostitution in Houston, and Milwaukee's high homicide rates.

Areas where tap water has the lowest lithium levels have higher suicide and homicide rates.

There also is moderate evidence that stand - your - ground laws, which allow people to use guns to defend themselves without requiring that they first attempt to retreat, if possible, may increase state homicide rates.

Previous studies have found that women living in harsher conditions — such as communities with high homicide rates and low income — are more inclined to find more masculine men attractive.

Valid studies would need to compare homicide rates in the same states at the same time, but both with and without capital punishment — an impossible experiment.

So researchers compared suicide and homicide rates with those in the 32 states new to the law.

Now, in Washington and Colorado, they're tracking data on traffic accidents and fatalities, pedestrian accidents, suicide rates, homicide rates, that type of thing.

But after Missouri repealed its permit - to - purchase handgun law in 2007, firearm homicide rates increased by 25 percent, a jump that was not seen in neighboring states or the rest of the country, Webster's team reported.

Stronger firearm laws are associated with reductions in firearm homicide rates, concludes a narrative review published in the November 14 issue of JAMA Internal Medicine.

Laws that banned assault weapons, improved child safety or aimed to limit firearm trafficking had no clear effect on firearm homicide rates.

Using data from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention's Web - Based Injury Statistics Query and Reporting Systems database, the researchers mapped out the relationship between changes in state concealed - carry permitting laws over time and total firearm - related homicide rates between 1991 and 2015.

«More permissive concealed - carry laws linked to higher homicide rates.»

I was struck by a graph I saw of homicide rates in British towns and cities going back to the 14th century.

Rather than curtailing gun deaths, there's moderate evidence that laws that let people claim self - defense even if they don't ty to retreat from a perceived threat lead to an uptick in homicide rates.

, Gun prevalence vs homicide rates - correlation and causation, and Same amount of weapons per person in Canada as in USA, far less murders.

[1] Now that this «control figure» is gone, they might change their modus operandi, with the risk that the local population will experience what it suffered five years ago: soaring homicide rates, terror and fear.

The much - discussed spike in homicide rates between 2014 and 2016 is due almost entirely to gun homicides, an analysis of federal homicide data reveals.

Consistent with this is a later European study of data from 21 nations in which «no significant correlations [of gun ownership levels] with total suicide or homicide rates were found.»

The report said that the evidence from such «U.S. cross-sectional studies is quite consistent... where there are higher levels of gun prevalence, homicide rates are substantially higher, primarily due to higher firearm homicide rates.»

This was the highest in the country's history and has positioned Costa Rica among the 50 countries with the highest homicide rates in the world.

Latin America has the world's highest homicide rates, making violent crime the biggest security concern for many of these countries.

Between 1960 and 1970 the fall in test scores, the doubling of teenage suicide and homicide rates, and the doubling share of births to unwed mothers can not be attributed to economic adversity.

From 1960 to 1988 standardized test scores fell significantly, teenage suicide and homicide rates more than doubled and obesity increased by 50 percent.

Further, on average and generally speaking, atheists have fewer divorces, abortions, and STDs, and lower poverty rates, homicide rates, overall crime rates, and teen pregnancy rates.

Religiosity is associated with lower I.Q.s, more paranoia, less education, scientific illiteracy, greater crime rates, higher homicide rates, and more STDs.

A 2005 study by Gregory S. Paul published in the Journal of Religion and Society stated that, «In general, higher rates of belief in and worship of a creator correlate with higher rates of homicide, juvenile and early adult mortality, STD infection rates, teen pregnancy, and abortion in the prosperous democracies,» and «In all secular developing democracies, a centuries long - term trend has seen homicide rates drop to historical lows» with the exceptions being the United States (with a high religiosity level) and «theistic» Portugal.

In some cases, the Council has determined homicide rates through estimates based on incomplete data.

Between 2011 and 2016, Acapulco had homicide rates above 100 per 100,000 people five times and had the highest rate in the country five times as well, according to the Justice in Mexico project.

Since 2012, Acapulco, which has been called «Guerrero's Iraq,» has been the most violent city in Mexico, and among the most violent cities in the world, with homicide rates above 100 per 100,000 people each year.

According to a 2005 study of criminal patterns by Statistics Canada, for example, inflation rates influence the levels of financially motivated crimes such as break - ins and car thefts, while increases in unemployment correlate with higher homicide rates.

The country has one of the highest homicide rates in the world.

The Swiss have often been touted by the National Rifle Association (NRA) as a standout example of a country with little gun control and a homicide rate near zero.

Nicaragua's government claims its relatively low homicide rate and lower amounts of annual cocaine seizures indicate a successful counternarcotics strategy, though past cases suggest organized crime does operate there.

In 2016 alone, Milwaukee faced a bevy of law - enforcement - related problems, including what Moews said is a spiked homicide rate.

By the end of 2015, the homicide rate in Guerrero reached 56.5 per 100,000 residents, which was four times the national average of 14.07 killings per 100,000 people, according to state - level data gathered by the Mexican government.

Acapulco's reported homicide rate of 104.73 per 100,000 residents in 2015 made it the fourth - most - violent city in the world, according to a report released earlier this year by a Mexican think tank.

The national annual homicide rate over the last decade and half has averaged 5.2 per 100,000 people, according to FBI data.

Another estimate from a nongovernment organization put the national homicide rate at 91.8 per 100,000 people.