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      ¿Más armas, más violencia? Evidencia de una compleja relación desde América Latina Translated title: Do more arms equal more violence? Evidence of a complex relationship from Latin America

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          Resumen Este artículo examina la relación entre violencia y disponibilidad de armas cortas y ligeras entre civiles en América Latina. Se argumenta que la relación causal entre mayor disponibilidad de armas y mayores índices de violencia no se sostiene para todo el continente y bajo cualquier circunstancia. Sin embargo, en situaciones específicas la mayor circulación de armas sí cataliza situaciones violentas. Al analizar y sintetizar las aportaciones académicas sobre este tema, se contribuye a los estudios sobre la violencia, criminalidad y seguridad en la región. Se hace un llamado a mayor investigación empírica y comparada que dilucide las interrogantes que aún quedan por resolver en la compleja relación entre disponibilidad de armas entre civiles y violencia en América Latina.

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          Abstract The article aims to examine the relationship between violence and small arms and light weapons (SALW) availability among civilians in Latin America. The article argues that the causal relationship between high rates of arms availability and high rates of violence does not hold for every context, nor for the entire region. However, in specific circumstances high rates of arms availability do trigger violent situations. By analyzing and synthesizing empirical academic contributions to this discussion, the article aims to contribute to the research field on violence, criminality, and security in the region. The article calls for further comparative and empirical research that might answer questions around the complex relationship between violence and arms availability among civilians in Latin America.

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              Household firearm ownership and rates of suicide across the 50 United States.

              The current investigation explores the association between rates of household firearm ownership and suicide across the 50 states. Prior ecologic research on the relationship between firearm prevalence and suicide has been criticized for using problematic proxy-based, rather than survey-based, estimates of firearm prevalence and for failing to control for potential psychological risk factors for suicide. We address these two criticisms by using recently available state-level survey-based estimates of household firearm ownership, serious mental illness, and alcohol/illicit substance use and dependence. Negative binomial regression was used to assess the relationship between household firearm ownership rates and rates of firearm, nonfirearm, and overall suicide for both sexes and for four age groups. Analyses controlled for rates of poverty, urbanization, unemployment, mental illness, and drug and alcohol dependence and abuse. US residents of all ages and both sexes are more likely to die from suicide when they live in areas where more households contain firearms. A positive and significant association exists between levels of household firearm ownership and rates of firearm and overall suicide; rates of nonfirearm suicide were not associated with levels of household firearm ownership. Household firearm ownership levels are strongly associated with higher rates of suicide, consistent with the hypothesis that the availability of lethal means increases the rate of completed suicide.
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                Journal
                perlat
                Perfiles latinoamericanos
                Perf. latinoam.
                Facultad Latinoamericana de Ciencias Sociales, Sede Académica de México (México, DF, Mexico )
                0188-7653
                June 2022
                : 30
                : 59
                Affiliations
                [1] Distrito Federal orgnameCentro de Investigación y Docencia Económicas orgdiv1División de Estudios Internacionales Mexico carlos.perezricart@ 123456cide.edu
                Article
                S0188-76532022000100011 S0188-7653(22)03005900011
                10.18504/pl3059-011-2022
                62e99923-ea68-4173-97e1-64ff63d0e278

                This work is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial 4.0 International License.

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                : 15 January 2020
                : 27 January 2021
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                circulación de armas,homicidios,violencia,armas,flow of illicit arms,violence,homicides,weapons

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