title: [Homicides and social vulnerability].
abstract: The goal of this study was to analyze the spatial distribution of homicide rates (H) according to the social vulnerability index (SVI) and the quality of urban life index (QUL) in Betim, State of Minas Gerais, from 2006 to 2011. Descriptive analysis was performed using Moran's spatial correlation analysis, and the H, SVI and QUL spatial analyses. During this period there were 1,383 deaths, mostly of males (91.9%), aged 15-24 years (46.9%), brown/black (76.9%), with secondary education (51.1%), and single (83.9%). No spatial autocorrelation was revealed, indicating that the distribution of homicide rates is random; the same occurred with the SVI and the QUL index. Taken together, however, the H, SVI and QUL index overlapped, which was analyzed using different theories of crime, such as those addressing socioeconomic issues, arms of drugs dealing and Durkheim's and Habermas' theories, namely anomie and colonization of the lifeworld.
  
  
  CONCLUSIONS
  social vulnerability and homicide are associated from both empirical and theoretical perspectives.
authors.affiliation: Departamento de Estatística, Instituto de Ciências Exatas e Biológicas, Universidade Federal de Ouro Preto, Ouro Preto, MG, Brasil, tavares@iceb.ufop.br.
authors.forename: Ricardo
authors.initials: R
authors.lastname: Tavares
authors.affiliation: Departamento de Medicina Preventiva e Social, Faculdade de Medicina, Universidade Federal de Minas Gerais, Belo Horizonte, MG, Brasil.
authors.forename: Valeria Dutra Batista
authors.initials: VD
authors.lastname: Catalan
authors.affiliation: Departamento de Medicina Preventiva e Social, Faculdade de Medicina, Universidade Federal de Minas Gerais, Belo Horizonte, MG, Brasil.
authors.forename: Pedro Machado de Melo
authors.initials: PM
authors.lastname: Romano
authors.affiliation: Departamento de Medicina Preventiva e Social, Faculdade de Medicina, Universidade Federal de Minas Gerais, Belo Horizonte, MG, Brasil.
authors.forename: Elza Machado
authors.initials: EM
authors.lastname: Melo
mesh_terms: D000293:Adolescent; D000328:Adult; D044383:Black People; D001938:Brazil / Q000453:epidemiology; D005260:Female; D006708:Homicide / Q000706:statistics & numerical data*; D006801:Humans; D019369:Life; D008297:Male; D062206:Spatial Analysis; D014505:Urban Population; D055815:Young Adult