This paper investigates the effect of absolute deprivation (proxy unemployment) and relative deprivation (proxy income inequality) on homicide levels in Brazil. A database from the Brazilian Information System about Mortality and Census of the year 2000 and 2010 was used to estimate negative binomial models of homicide levels controlling for socioeconomic, demographic, and geographic factors. Findings show that unemployment and income inequality affect homicides levels and that the effect of the former is more pronounced compared to the latter. Moreover, the combination of income inequality and unemployment exacerbates the overall effect of deprivation on homicide levels.

本文调查了绝对剥夺（代理失业）和相对剥夺（代理收入不平等）对巴西凶杀案的影响。使用来自巴西有关死亡率和人口普查的2000年和2010年信息系统的数据库来估计控制社会经济，人口和地理因素的凶杀水平的负二项式模型。研究结果表明，失业和收入不平等会影响凶杀案的发生，与前者相比，前者的影响更为明显。此外，收入不平等和失业的结合加剧了剥夺对凶杀案的总体影响。