Virus containment measures and homicide in Mexico: An assessment of community strain theory
Carlos Vilalta, Gustavo Fondevila, Profesor Investigador Titular de la División de Estudios Jurídicos del CIDE, y Ricardo Massa, Cátedra Conacyt adscrito al Laboratorio Nacional de Políticas Públicas del CIDE, escribieron el artículo Virus containment measures and homicide in Mexico: An assessment of community strain theory en el Journal of Criminal Justice.
Abstract
Objectives
This study examined whether Covid-19 virus containment measures moderated the relationship between community strain and homicide rates in Mexico City neighborhoods and police quadrants.
Methods
We tested the moderation effects hypothesis with the use of a mixed-effects regression to estimate fixed effects with random effects at different levels of aggregation. A sensitivity analysis was used to assess whether results of the moderation effects were affected by changes in the unit of analysis.
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