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12 Homicide Stud. 3 (2008)

handle is hein.journals/homcst12 and id is 1 raw text is: February 2008 3-6 © 008 ag Pblitions Homicide in an International hosted at Context http://onlinecsagepub.com Guest Editor's Introduction William Alex Pridemore Indiana University T his special issue of Homicide Studies is devoted to theoretical and empirical top- ics associated with homicide in an international context. In the call for articles for this special issue, we were purposely broad in scope stating that submissions might include cross-national studies, studies comparing two (or a similarly small number of) nations, detailed analyses of homicides in individual nations, meta- analyses or reviews, and brief summaries of homicide in individual countries or regions rarely examined in the empirical literature. The call for articles was adver- tised widely across multiple disciplines, professional organizations, and interna- tional groups. As the guest editor of this special issue, I admit disappointment at the lack of cover- age of a few important nations and regions. On the other hand, I am very pleased with the scholarship included here. The order of the articles in the issue is no accident, rep- resenting a general to specific trend. The first three articles are cross-national in their coverage, the next two are country-specific empirical analyses, and the final three are country-specific in nature but represent exploratory studies. Although the latter research note type articles did not formally test hypotheses, I found them compelling. Their inclusion allowed me to highlight the work of three more scholars and to reveal initial research from areas of the world not often represented in homicide research. In the first article, Bye examines an independent variable and employs a method that are both relatively rare in U.S. studies of homicide. In her study, she used time-series analysis to study the association between alcohol consumption and homicide rates (overall and sex-specific) in six eastern European nations. To see how the association may vary across countries with different drinking patterns, she pooled estimates into two groups of countries with more and less hazardous drinking patterns. She found that annual changes in estimates of alcohol consumption were positively and significantly associated with homicide rates and that the association was stronger in countries with a more hazardous drinking pattern. She concludes that a reduction in alcohol consump- tion in eastern European countries would lead to a reduction in homicide rates. In their article, Jacobs and Richardson provide a cross-national test of Blau and Blau's theory concerning economic inequality and homicide rates. The authors point out that empirical studies have largely ignored the cumulative effects of inequality. 3

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