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Title: Inequality in Life Lost to Violence in the United States

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Publication Year: 2021

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Abstract: This study uses demographic methods to describe ethnoracial and educational inequality in the cumulative risk of homicide death and life lost to violence in the United States. If age-specific homicide rates were to continue at 2018–2019 levels, more than 1 in 19 Black males without a high school diploma would die by homicide. In contrast, 1 in 152 White males without a high school diploma and 1 in 233 Black males with a bachelor’s degree would be violently killed. Among Black males without a high school diploma, homicide led to a decrease in life expectancy at ages 15–19 of more than two years. The impact of U.S. violence on the life expectancy of socially marginalized people exceeds the life-expectancy impact on the full U.S. population of all causes of death except heart disease and cancer.

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Authors: Roehrkasse, Alexander F.

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Data Collections: IPUMS USA

Topics: Education, Fertility and Mortality, Race and Ethnicity

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