| This research assesses the impact of gender inequality and concentrated disadvantage on homicide rates disaggregated into race- and gender-specific groups. While key structural theories found influential to understanding racespecific homicide are reviewed, this study merges race-relations and feminist explanations into the study of homicide rates among specific groups: white males, white females, black males, and black females. Our efforts result in an examination of multiple measures of concentrated disadvantage-racial residential segregation, disparities in labor market opportunities, poverty-and gender inequality across our race- and gender-specific homicide rates. Overall we find that those structural measures most commonly implemented in the homicide literature contribute little to our understanding of the homicide offending among African Americans and females (regardless of race). Those measures informed by our merger of race-relations and feminist literature, literature that highlights the interconnections between race, gender, and violence, will be emphasized in this research. |
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