Citation

Perdomo CJV. Estud. Sociol. 2009; 27(79): 211-235.

Copyright

(Copyright © 2009, Centro de Estudios Sociológicos de El Colegio de México)

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Abstract

The aim of this study is to detect the existence of statistically significant associations between the use of violence during crime and a set of social, familiar and individual factors, which hypothetically inhibit or cause such violence. The associations are sought in a 2005 survey carried out on a sample of 655 inmates from 9 jails in Mexico City. The results of a multivariate logistic model indicate that the proclivity to violence increases if the criminal carries a firearm and the crime is committed during the night; whereas the proclivity diminishes if the criminal is reoffending. However, other factors do not have a statistically significant relation with violence during the commission of crimes. Consequently, policy recommendations are geared towards arms control, and increased patrolling and more efficient monitoring during the night, as well as towards the use of measures of social communication against violence.