@article{ref1,
title="Social welfare support and homicide: Longitudinal analyses of European countries from 1994 to 2010",
journal="Social science research",
year="2014",
author="McCall, Patricia L. and Brauer, Jonathan R.",
volume="48",
number="",
pages="90-107",
abstract="The purpose of this research is to explore the extent to which retrenchment in welfare support is related to homicide trends across European countries between 1994 and 2010. Using a longitudinal decomposition design that allows for stronger causal inferences compared to typical cross-sectional designs, we examine these potential linkages between social support spending and homicide with data collected from a heterogeneous sample of European nations, including twenty Western nations and nine less frequently analyzed East-Central nations, during recent years in which European nations generally witnessed substantial changes in homicide rates as well as both economic prosperity and fiscal crisis. <br><br>RESULTS suggest that even incremental, short-term changes in welfare support spending are associated with short-term reductions in homicide--specifically, impacting homicide rates within two to three years for this sample of European nations.<p />",
language="en",
issn="0049-089X",
doi="10.1016/j.ssresearch.2014.05.009",
url="http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.ssresearch.2014.05.009"
}