Homicide and its Situational Characterization: Between Quantitative and Qualitative
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homicide, violence, crime, opportunities for crime, public policyAbstract
The article reviews perspectives on opportunities and crime, dynamics of interpersonal violence and macrostructural explanations applied to homicides as a situational event, in order to propose an integrated approach for its explanation and intervention, bearing on both quantitative data emerging from victim surveys and qualitative data emerging from homicide agents. It is discussed a follow up of judicial cases and personal interviews with convicted killers, thus triangulating information both from surrogate informants for victims and from killers themselves. This approach can contribute to fill the gap between objective properties of the situation, as target attraction or lack of protection, and motivational issues, in order to contribute to a better understanding of homicides in a high incidence context as Latin America.Downloads
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2018-12-11
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