Decomposing Violence: Crime Cycles In The Twentieth Century In The United States

• Alejandro Gómez-Sorzano ^[1]
  1. [1] University of Pennsylvania

     University of Pennsylvania

     City of Philadelphia, Estados Unidos

     
• Localización: Applied econometrics and international development, ISSN 1578-4487, Vol. 7, Nº. 1, 2007, pág. 85
• Idioma: inglés
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  • I apply the Beveridge-Nelson business cycle decomposition method to the time series of murder in the United States (1900-2004). Separating out “permanent” from “cyclical” murder, I hypothesize that the cyclical part coincides with documented waves of organized crime, internal tensions, breakdowns in social order, crime legislation, alternation in power, social, and political unrest overseas as wars, and recently with the periodic terrorist attacks in the country.