The racial/ethnic invariance thesis is a foundational assumption of the general theories of
crime. It assumes that all persons, regardless of their racial/ethnic background, engage in …

Violent injury is known to be a chronic, recurrent issue, with high rates of recidivism following
initial injury. While the burden of violence is disproportionately felt among young Black men …

Social scientists have long known that crime is higher in minority versus White
neighborhoods. Predominant accounts of this pattern invoke a racial invariance thesis …

General theories of crime assume that Whites and African Americans commit crime for
exactly the same reasons. Scholars refer to this foundational assumption as “the racial …

Criminologists largely rely on national deidentified data sources to study homicide in the
United States. The National Death Index (NDI), a comprehensive and well-established …

Purpose Homicide is the most severe form of crime and one that imposes the greatest
societal costs. The purpose of this paper is to introduce the homicide circumplex, a set of …

An abundance of scholarship has examined the racial invariance thesis positing that the
causes of violence, especially markers of disadvantage, are similar across racial/ethnic …

Mapping crime can help identify geographic areas where crime clusters, and potentially help
reveal factors that affect the production of crime at the structural level. Such information …

Canada is often perceived to be a less violent nation than other Westernized countries, but it
faces some of the same challenges as other countries when it comes to homicide. The …

The systemic model of crime illustrates how neighborhood social structure influences social
networks needed for the regulation of crime. This study examines whether those structural …