Killing the Competition: Economic Inequality and Homicide

by Martin Daly

Book Overview

Criminologists have known for decades that income inequality is the best predictor of the local homicide rate, but why this is so has eluded them. There is a simple, compelling answer: most homicides are the denouements of competitive interactions between men. Relatively speaking, where desired goods are distributed inequitably and competition for those goods is severe, dangerous tactics of competition are appealing and a high homicide rate is...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1412863252
• ISBN13: 9781412863254
• Release Date: August 2016
• Publisher: Routledge
• Length: 250 Pages
• Weight: 0.60 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.5" x 5.7" x 8.4"