title: Cultural processes and homicide across nations.
abstract: This article is concerned with the macro-level propositions of Nisbett and Cohen's culture of honor thesis. The results suggest that the culture of honor proxy has a strong positive influence on homicide across nations. In fact, culture of honor exhibited larger effect sizes than all of the important social-structural controls. These results suggest that consideration of cultural processes is important for understanding macro-level variation in violence.
authors.affiliation: Rochester Institute of Technology, Rochester, NY 14623-5603, USA. ixagcj@rit.edu
authors.forename: Irshad
authors.initials: I
authors.lastname: Altheimer
mesh_terms: D003418:Criminology; D003469:Culture; D006708:Homicide / Q000208:ethnology*; D006801:Humans; D015999:Multivariate Analysis; D012945:Social Values; D012959:Socioeconomic Factors