Does corruption affect homicide? The Brazilian Case
International Journal of Development Research
Does corruption affect homicide? The Brazilian Case
Received 11th January, 2022; Received in revised form 03rd February, 2022; Accepted 19th March, 2022; Published online 27th April, 2022
Copyright © 2022, Tito Belchior Silva Moreira et al. This is an open access article distributed under the Creative Commons Attribution License, which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited.
This article empirically assesses the determinants of homicide rates based on panel data by states for the period 1998-2008. The main contribution of this paper is to test whether corruption affects homicide rates in Brazil. It is worth noting that the relationship between corruption and homicide is very little explored in the literature. Based on different empirical specifications, the results attest to the hypothesis that corruption impacts, and show a directly proportional relationship with the total homicide rate, even controlling the results for other variables associated with socioeconomic aspects.
