Economic Hardship and Violence: A Comparison of County-Level Economic Measures in the Prediction of Violence-Related Injury.

ABSTRACT: Economic hardship may lead to a wide range of negative outcomes, including violence. However, existing literature on economic hardship and violence is limited by reliance on official reports of violence and conflation of different measures of economic hardship. The goals of this study are to measure how violence-related injuries are associated with five measures of county-level economic shocks: unemployment rate, male mass layoffs, female mass layoffs, foreclosure rate, and unemployment rate change, measured cross-sectionally and by a 1-year lag. This study measures three subtypes of violence outcomes (child abuse, elder abuse, and intimate partner violence). Yearly county-level data were obtained on violence-related injuries and economic measures from 2005 to 2012 for all 87 counties in M

SUBMITTER: Santaularia NJ 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC9900694 | biostudies-literature | 2023 Mar

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature