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Homicide is commonly considered as the most serious form of violent crime. This chapter describes the problem of homicide in Asia and reviews empirical research on related issues. It first discusses various international homicide data sources and uses available data to describe the recent homicide trends from 2003 to 2008 in most of the Asian countries and regions. This chapter also reviews the empirical research on the factors that may help explain the homicide trends in Asia. These factors include firearms, capital punishment, population characteristics (such as youth population and population diversity), and social characteristics (such as democracy, modernization, and social stress). This chapter also discusses homicide clearance. The empirical studies reviewed in this chapter either examined specific countries in Asia or included some Asian countries and regions in the comparative analyses.

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  1. Old Dominion University, Norfolk, VA, USA

    Mengyan Dai Ph.D.

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  1. Department of Sociology, University of Macau, Taipa, Macao, Macao

    Jianhong Liu

  2. Centre for Criminology and Criminal Just, University of Manchester, Manchester, United Kingdom

    Bill Hebenton

  3. School of Criminology, National Taipei University, Taipei, Taiwan R.O.C.

    Susyan Jou

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Dai, M. (2013). Homicide in Asia. In: Liu, J., Hebenton, B., Jou, S. (eds) Handbook of Asian Criminology. Springer, New York, NY. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4614-5218-8_2

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