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This paper examines cultural and social-structural causes of cross-national variation in homicide and suicide. Despite the fact that culture is a key element in Merton’s anomie theory, previous cross-national studies failed to examine the effect of culture. Using World Value Survey data, this resear...

This paper examines cultural and social-structural causes of cross-national variation in homicide and suicide. Despite the fact that culture is a key element in Merton’s anomie theory, previous cross-national studies failed to examine the effect of culture. Using World Value Survey data, this research operationalizes economic success culture. Moreover, the data provide cultural measures of family and religious integration. These three predictors are treated as latent variable with multiple indicators. Measures of civic institutions -trust and participation in voluntary organizations- are also obtained from World Value Survey data. As for inequality, this research employs two measures: income inequality and economic discrimination. To test Merton’s theory, the present study examines the effects of economic success culture, inequality, and the interaction between the two. The findings suggest that 1) cultures that emphasize economic success increase the homicide rate, while reducing the suicide rate, 2) economic discrimination increases the homicide rate, while income inequality increases the suicide rate, 3) there is no interaction effect on the suicide rate of economic success culture and income inequality, and 4) the effect of economic success culture on the homicide rate is weaker as the level of economic discrimination increases.

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