Posted on Feb. 11: Homicide in the City

[img_inline align=”right” src=”http://padnws01.mcmaster.ca/images/Science_in_the_City_Daly.jpg” caption=”Martin Daly”]Psychologist Martin Daly has found some intriguing connections between the homicide rate and income distribution in Canada and the United States.

Daly, who desribes his studies of homicide as “a window on human passions and antagonisms,” has found that the greater the inequality in the distribution of income between rich and poor, the higher the homicide rate.

Daly will discuss his research at tonight's Science in the City lecture titled Competition, Inequity and Homicide, the second in a series of lectures sponsored jointly by McMaster University and the Hamilton Spectator.

In an interview with the Spectator (Feb.8), Daly notes that “the more inequitable the rewards, the higher the rates of violence, presumably because it's more desperately competitive at the bottom.”

This free lecture will be held tonight in the Spectator Auditorium, located in the Hamilton Spectator, 44 Frid Street. Doors open at 6:30 p.m. and the lecture begins at 7 p.m.