Whether or not the scale of a society's income inequality is a determinant of population
health is still regarded as a controversial issue. We decided to review the evidence and see …

The authors take an evolutionary psychological approach to risky decision making, social
competition, sex differences, and homicide. Consideration of how selection has shaped …

A leading sociological theory of crime is the “routine activities” approach (Cohen and Felson,
1979). The premise of this ecological theory is that criminal events result from likely …

The human race spends a disproportionate amount of attention, money, and expertise in
solving, trying, and reporting homicides, as compared to other social problems. The public …

Ecological economics is a way of rethinking the relationship between humans and the
environment and working out the implications of how we manage our lives and the planet …

The macro-level approach reemerged as a salient criminological paradigm in the late 1970s
and early 1980s. Prompted by new theories and reformulations of existing ones, over 200 …

The US crime rate has dropped steadily for more than a decade, yet the rate of incarceration
continues to skyrocket. Today, more than 2 million Americans are locked in prisons and jails …

In the late 1970s and early 1980s, several important reviews of the literature failed to
establish a clear consensus on the relationship between economic conditions and violent …

In comparisons among Chicago neighbourhoods, homicide rates in 1988-93 varied more
than 100-fold, while male life expectancy at birth ranged from 54 to 77 years, even with …

There is now substantial evidence that larger income differences in a society increase the
prevalence of most of the health and social problems that tend to occur more frequently …