Segregation and crime: The effect of black social isolation on the rates of black urban violence

Social Forces

Volumn 74, Issue 4, 1996, Pages 1325-1352

  Shihadeh, Edward S ^a   Flynn, Nicole ^a  

^a LOUISIANA STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BLACK PEOPLE; RACIAL SEGREGATION; RESIDENTIAL VIOLENCE; SPATIAL ISOLATION; URBAN SOCIETY;

USA;

EID: 0030432194     PISSN: 00377732     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1093/sf/74.4.1325     Document Type: Article

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