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We use data from a unique survey of members of drug-trafficking gangs in favelas (slums) of Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, to characterize drug-trafficking jobs and study the selection into gangs, analyzing what distinguishes gang-members from other youth living in favelas.

Your probability of death if you join a Brazilian gang is 20% over two years | Chris Blattman

02/2/13

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The takeaway from that is that not just the Malawi murder but all the UNODC data supposedly derived from public health sources is questionable. I’m not trying to claim that these statistics were necessarily faked intentionally. I can imagine a number of ways they could have been screwed up by mistake.

Can the UNODC’s Murder Statistics be Trusted? | Ceteris Non Paribus

01/21/13

(via Access to Statistics: Welcome to the world’s first open contest to celebrate excellence and beauty in data visualizations, infographics and information art)

08/25/12

Teachers versus armed civilians in mass murder prevention « Urban ethics and theory — screams ‘coding exercise for undergrads’ to me too, as do many of the posts I tag with ‘measurement’ (via Cosma Shalizi).

08/8/12

(via USA Homicide Rates: 1950-2010; By Race And Sex | William M. Briggs)

08/6/12

(via Assault Deaths within the United States — Crooked Timber)

07/23/12

datahacker:

prisons, correctional facilities, and jails in america. circle radius determined by (absolute) facility population (max=9796). huge thanks to the creator of prisonmap, josh begley, for discussing his project with me and giving me tips on scraping the data from prisoners of the census.

06/18/12

(via Boston Review — Bruce Western: Crime and Punishment)

05/20/12

A refutation of Donohue and Levitt (from Freakonomics) about abortion and crime; as simple as using different standard errors and different data.

03/21/12

(via Interactive map of the drug war in Mexico | Diego Valle’s Blog)

03/21/12

“In the chart below, you can see how murder rates vary across the month. The relate daily mortality risk is about 10% higher on payday than it is for the rest of the month, and a little bit higher for 4 days after payday.” (via Income, health, and payday deaths | Inequalities)

03/13/12

(via Politics is a Matter of Life and Death (Times 23,000) — The Monkey Cage)

01/30/12

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