How international rents moderate business cycles' relationship to high homicide rates. Issue 1 (2nd January 2023)

• Record Type: Journal Article
• Authors: Leon, Daniel S.
• Is Part Of: Global crime. Volume 24:Issue 1(2023)
• Page Start: 1
• Page End: 18
• Publication Date: 2023-01-02
• Subjects: Homicide rates -- GDP growth -- natural resource rents -- remittances -- moderated mediation -- global south; Transnational crime -- Periodicals; Organized crime -- Periodicals; 364.106072
• DOI: 10.1080/17440572.2022.2138859
• Languages: English
• ISSNs: 1744-0572

Abstract

ABSTRACT: I explore the relationships between macroeconomic conditions and how the forms of integration into the global economy affect homicide rates in 21 high-violence countries from 2000 to 2018. The analysis focuses on countries integrated into the global economy by accruing international economic rents. I use data from 2000 to 2018 to analyse how resource rents and remittances moderated the relationship between business cycles and high homicide rates. Moreover, I also evaluate how socioeconomic conditions mediate the above relationship. The results indicate that natural resource rents conditioned a procyclical relationship between business cycles and homicide rates. Contrastingly, remittances conditioned a countercyclical relationship between business cycles and homicide rates. The findings contribute to the rich and growing economic criminology and international political economy literature investigating how international rents condition subnational violence.