Comment on Does life have less value to people in Latin America?

• LeapSecond@lemmy.zip ⁨2⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

  This is entirely speculation but the fact that there are active wars in the continent might affect how the data is classified. I don’t know how the article you posted defines homicide. There are some rules here www.unodc.org/unodc/en/…/iccs.html and it seems that deaths during war conflicts might not be counted as intentional homicides. Latin America hasn’t had many wars but had/has many conflicts involving guerrillas, cartels and political groups. Is it possible that many of the resulting deaths are counted as homicides whereas similar violence in Africa is counted as, for example, civil war deaths?

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  • porcoesphino@mander.xyz ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

    I’m inclined to agree:

    ourworldindata.org/grapher/homicide-rate-unodc

    They’ve made a clear definition here that agrees with what you’re saying. But in their data, most of Africa is missing

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• porcoesphino@mander.xyz ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

  Relative?

  There is a long list of correlations.

  A lot of the “relative” is within the same country and just a given time frame so your interpretation is flawed.

  You seem to need simplistic answers and the quote above pretty clearly points out recessions, gang activity (presumably related to drugs), inequality and governance as having some correlation so you could look up rates and compare if you wanted to have an idea of where some things might be different. That would be hugely speculative though

  Violence is of course present but not at the same level as in South America.

  Are you conflating violence (a broad term) with homicide?

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• Skullgrid@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

  macroeconomic instability often fuels spikes in violence: a recession in LAC is associated with a 6 percent increase in homicides the following year, while inflation spikes above 10 percent are linked to a 10 percent rise in homicides the year after. Growing inequality further exacerbates the link between economic stagnation and crime.

  if things are static in africa, then the base level of violence may be maintained, wheras increases in factors can lead to increases in violence.

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