Economic inequality, family disruption, and urban black violence: Cities as units of stratification and social control

Social Forces

Volumn 73, Issue 2, 1994, Pages 729-751

  Steffensmeier, Darrell J ^b  

^a LOUISIANA STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b PENNSYLVANIA STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BLACK POPULATION; FAMILY DISRUPTION; INCOME INEQUALITY; SOCIAL CONTROL; URBAN VIOLENCE; VIOLENT CRIME;

USA;

EID: 0028560637     PISSN: 00377732     EISSN: 15347605     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1093/sf/73.2.729     Document Type: Article

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