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Vodka and Violence: Alcohol Consumption and Homicide Rates in Russia

William Alex Pridemore, PhD

The author is with the Department of Sociology, University of Oklahoma, Norman, Okla.



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  		FIGURE 1— —Annual rates of (proxy) alcohol consumption and homicides in Russia, 1965–1996.

Note. The proxy for alcohol consumption is the rate of deaths due to alcohol poisoning (see discussion of this measure in Methodology section).

 


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  		FIGURE 2— —Russian homicides per 100 000 population according to crime and mortality data, 1990–1999.

 


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  		FIGURE 3— —Scatterplot of the log of the regional homicide rates and the log of the regional alcohol poisoning mortality rates.

 




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