Regional Variation in Europe Between Homicide and Other Forms of External Death and Criminal Offences

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This chapter analyzes the relationship between homicide and other external causes of death such as suicide, motor vehicle traffic accidents and work-related accidents across Europe. It also compares homicide to other violent offences and to property offences. The comparison is both cross-sectional and longitudinal, identifying regional variations in rates and trends from 1970 to 2008, unless in the cases where data are available only for shorter periods of time. Data are taken mainly from the World Health Organization Statistics, the European Sourcebook of Crime and Criminal Justice Statistics and the Council of Europe Annual Penal Statistics. The findings suggest that opportunity-based theories provide the more plausible explanation of regional differences and trends in the various measures studied.

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Suicide Rate Traffic Accident Eastern European Country Western European Country Relative Deprivation 
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Authors and Affiliations

  1. 1.School of Criminal Sciences, Institute of Criminology and Criminal Law, ESC-ICDP-BCHUniversity of LausanneLausanneSwitzerland
  2. 2.University of LausanneLausanneSwitzerland
  3. 3.Universitat Oberta de CatalunyaBarcelonaSpain

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