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Decommodification and Homicide Rates in the 20th-Century United States

Candice Batton

University of Nebraska-Omaha

Gary Jensen

Vanderbilt University

This study uses time-series regression techniques to examine the impact of decommodification on homicide rates in the United States from the institutional anomie perspective. Although recent studies have examined the impact of decommodification on cross-national variations in homicide rates, little attention has been paid to historical trends in this relationship. Our findings support institutional anomie theory when decommodification is conceptualized as a historically variant and contextual variable. No support was found for more intricate specifications measuring annual variation in the level of decommodification, and no support was found for alternative modes of periodization. Finally, the results also point to a temporal shift in the correlates of homicide rates between the two distinct historical periods, and the results have methodological implications for conducting time-series analyses.

Homicide Studies, Vol. 6, No. 1, 6-38 (2002)
DOI: 10.1177/1088767902006001002
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