Global Decline of Homicide Mateus Renno Santos

Published: Dec. 10, 2019, 7:15 p.m.

b'The global decline of births from 1990 and 2015 has to a reduction in the proportion of people aged 15-29. So might this explain why the world\\u2019s homicide rate has dropped by nearly 20%? In episode 64, we\\u2019re joined by Mateus Renn\\xf3 Santos\\xa0from the University of South Florida. He talks with us about his research into how an aging population is a driving force behind the decline in homicide that most countries across the globe have enjoyed for the past three decades.'