Association between youth homicides and state spending: a Chicago cross-sectional case study.

ABSTRACT:

Objective

To identify contributing factors associated with rapid spikes and declines in Chicago youth homicide from 2009 to 2018.

Setting

City of Chicago, Illinois, US 2009-2018.

Participants

Homicide count data come from the National Violent Death Reporting System. The study included information on 2271 homicide decedents between the ages of 15 and 24 who died between 1 January 2009 and 31 December 2018. Of these decedents, 92.9% were male; 79.1% were non-Hispanic black; and 94.9% died from a firearm injury. PRIMARY AND SECONDARY OUTCOME MEASURES: (A) Temporal shifts in monthly homicide rates and (B) temporal associations between social, environmental and economic conditions/events and fluctuations in homicides.

Results

We found statistically significant shift

SUBMITTER: Mason M 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC8808420 | biostudies-literature | 2022 Jan

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature