caa a22 4500 39752465X CHVBK 20180308164641.0 cr unu---uuuuu 161202e199512 xx s 000 0 eng 10.1093/oxfordjournals.esr.a036362 doi (NATIONALLICENCE)oxford-10.1093/oxfordjournals.esr.a036362 Age Structure, Socio-Political Institutions, and National Homicide Rates [Elektronische Daten] [FRED C. PAMPEL, ROSEMARY GARTNER] Both the high propensity of young people to commit homicide and the social and financial problems faced by large cohorts during their youth suggest that increases in the proportion of the population at ages 15-29 contribute to higher national homicide rates. Although confirmed by time-series studies of the United States, the expected macro-level relationship does not emerge in cross-national studies of other high-income nations. We argue that the diverse results stem from the varied development of national institutions for collective social protection across high-income nations which mitigate the impact of changes in the percentage of young people on homicide. Results from pooled cross-sectional time-series analyses for eighteen countries and 36 years support the hypothesis: national context, as measured by a scale of collectivism, reduces the otherwise positive effects of the percentage youth on homicide. The findings suggest the need for theories to integrate demographic, political, and criminological perspectives in understanding social diversity among otherwise economically similar high-income democratic nations. © Oxford University Press Articles nationallicence PAMPEL FRED C. Population Program University of Colorado Boulder, CO 80309-04843, USA. Tel: 303-492-7986. E-mail: pampel@adder.Colorado.EDU aut GARTNER ROSEMARY Department of Sociology 203 College Street, University of Toronto, Toronto, Ontario M5T 1P9, Canada. aut European Sociological Review Oxford University Press 11/3(1995-12), 243-260 0266-7215 11:3<243 1995 11 eursoj https://doi.org/10.1093/oxfordjournals.esr.a036362 text/html Onlinezugriff via DOI 1 research-article jats NATIONALLICENCE 856 40 https://doi.org/10.1093/oxfordjournals.esr.a036362 text/html Onlinezugriff via DOI NATIONALLICENCE 700 1- PAMPEL FRED C. Population Program University of Colorado Boulder, CO 80309-04843, USA. Tel: 303-492-7986. E-mail: pampel@adder.Colorado.EDU aut NATIONALLICENCE 700 1- GARTNER ROSEMARY Department of Sociology 203 College Street, University of Toronto, Toronto, Ontario M5T 1P9, Canada aut NATIONALLICENCE 773 0- European Sociological Review Oxford University Press 11/3(1995-12), 243-260 0266-7215 11:3<243 1995 11 eursoj Metadata rights reserved CC BY-NC-4.0 http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/4.0 nationallicence BK010053 XK010053 XK010000 NATIONALLICENCE NATIONALLICENCE NL-oxford