Date of Award

12-4-2023

Document Type

Dissertation

Degree Name

Doctor of Philosophy (PhD)

Department

Criminal Justice

First Advisor

Richard Lewis

Abstract

Understanding how economic governance influences routine activities is crucial within the field of criminology to better understand how grounds for violence emerge. Literature of cross-national studies concerning the effects of economic governance has recently developed to study its relationship with violence, specifically homicide. However, there is a deficit of frameworks related to criminological theory in this literature. Using a routine activity framework, the current dissertation seeks understand how different degrees of economic governance in general and, more specifically, the five areas of economic governance – size of government, legal system and property rights, sound money, freedom to international trade, and regulations –affects security and safety. Additionally, the current dissertation seeks to better understand if economic governance influences women’s security and safety given their unique position in criminology. The sample for the current dissertation is data from 156 countries in the year 2018. To test the effects of economic governance on a generalized concept of violence – homicide, disappearances, conflict, terrorism, and female subjugation – quantile regression models were estimated. The findings lend partial support that in countries with less economic governance there is more security and safety. Herein, the findings, limitations, and suggestions for future research by the current dissertation are further discussed.

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