TY  - JOUR
PY  - 2006//
TI  - Race and Gender-Disaggregated Homicide Offending Rates: Differences and Similarities by Victim-Offender Relations Across Cities
JO  - Homicide studies
A1  - Haynie, Denise L.
A1  - Armstrong, David P.
SP  - 3
EP  - 32
VL  - 10
IS  - 1
N2  - Although gender and race are two of the best known correlates of violent crime, surprisingly little research has examined how gender and race intersect in the etiology of violent behavior. To redress this, the authors' study integrates a communities and crime perspective within a gender inequality framework to examine the city-level correlates of homicide offending rates disaggregated by race and gender. Two questions are addressed: a) Are the contextual underpinnings for high rates of urban homicide in the United States similar or distinct across race and gender categories? b) Does the ability of city characteristics as predictors of violence vary depending upon the context of violence (i.e., by victim-offender relationship)? Consistent with expectations, findings indicate that there are differences in the relative importance of predictors of homicide across race and gender categories. In addition, the relative importance of homicide predictors depends upon the nature of the victim-offender relationship.<p />
LA  - 
SN  - 1088-7679
UR  - http://dx.doi.org/10.1177/1088767905281518
ID  - ref1
ER  -