Smith M D, Brewer V E
Department of Sociology, Tulane University, New Orleans, LA 70118-5698.
Violence Vict. 1992 Winter;7(4):279-86.
A considerable amount of research has been devoted to determining structural correlates of homicide across places in the United States. However, recent research has found that general correlates may not hold when homicide rates are disaggregated into analysis of specific groups. Adopting a public health approach, we explore the possibility that male and female rates of homicide victimization may show differential patterns of association with selected social-structural risk factors across a sample of U.S. central cities. The results show that both male and female homicide victimization is related to a general set of factors derived from the theoretical framework of social disorganization. At the same time, it is found that these factors are better predictors of male than female homicides. Suggestions are made for research to discern additional factors, perhaps distinct from those of men, related to the rather considerable variation in the prevalence of female homicide across communities in the United States.
大量研究致力于确定美国各地杀人案的结构相关因素。然而，最近的研究发现，当将杀人率细分为特定群体进行分析时，一般的相关因素可能并不成立。我们采用公共卫生方法，探讨在美国中心城市样本中，男性和女性杀人案受害率与选定的社会结构风险因素之间可能存在不同关联模式的可能性。结果表明，男性和女性杀人案受害情况均与源自社会失序理论框架的一组一般因素相关。同时，研究发现这些因素对男性杀人案的预测能力优于女性杀人案。研究建议识别其他因素，这些因素可能与男性不同，与美国各社区女性杀人案发生率的显著差异有关。
