Income inequality and homicide rates in Canada and the United States

Previous research showing that income inequality (assessed by the Gini index) is a predictor, and hence a possible determinant, of homicide rates, whether at the cross-national, state, or city level, has been inconclusive because of a negative relationship between economic inequity and average income. Comparison across the Canadian provinces provides a test case in which average income and the Gini are, instead, positively correlated, and we …