homicide

A new book argues that interpersonal violence – homicide, intimate partner violence, and child abuse – costs the world far more than war, yet receives a fraction of the policy attention. Drawing on victimisation surveys and value-of-statistical-life estimates, the authors put the annual cost of interpersonal violence at roughly $30 trillion, compared with $3.7 trillion for collective violence.

Evidence from Brazil shows that an air interdiction policy in 2004 shifted cocaine routes to rivers, increasing violence in Amazonian municipalities.

Homicides increased in Brazilian regions exposed to greater foreign competition following trade liberalisation, with employment rates the main driver