INTENTIONAL HOMICIDES IN COSTA RICA: SOCIODEMOGRAPHIC CHARACTERIZATION
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| Format: | artículo original |
| Status: | Versión publicada |
| Data wydania: | 2006 |
| Opis: | This article summarizes social, demographic and other environmental characteristicsof voluntary manslaughters that occurred in Costa Rica during the 1998-1999period, based on guilty verdicts given by the justice courts. It is emphasized thatmost of the offenders and the victims were male, which is associated with the linkbetween masculinity and violence, as well as some other characteristics of theoffenders. In addition, most of the crimes happened during the weekend, and it isdisturbing that Limon, the less populated province in the country, has the highestrates of voluntary manslaughter per one hundred thousand inhabitants. |
| Kraj: | Portal de Revistas UCR |
| Instytucja: | Universidad de Costa Rica |
| Repositorio: | Portal de Revistas UCR |
| Język: | Español |
| OAI Identifier: | oai:portal.ucr.ac.cr:article/51900 |
| Dostęp online: | https://revistas.ucr.ac.cr/index.php/sociales/article/view/51900 |
| Słowo kluczowe: | VOLUNTARY MANSLAUGHTER MALES VIOLENCE COSTA RICA LIMÓN HOMICIDIOS DOLOSOS MASCULINIDAD VIOLENCIA |