Social capital, income inequality, and firearm violent crime

Social Science and Medicine

Volumn 47, Issue 1, 1998, Pages 7-17

  Kennedy, Bruce P ^a   Kawachi, Ichiro ^a   Prothrow Stith, Deborah ^a   Lochner, Kimberly ^a   Gupta, Vanita ^a  

^a HARVARD SCHOOL OF PUBLIC HEALTH   (United States)

Author keywords

Crime; Firearms; Homicide; Inequality; Poverty; Social capital; Social stratification

Indexed keywords

INCOME INEQUALITY; POVERTY; SOCIAL CAPITAL; SOCIOECONOMIC INDICATORS; VIOLENT CRIME;

ARTICLE; CRIMINAL BEHAVIOR; FEMALE; FIREARM; HOMICIDE; HUMAN; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; NORMAL HUMAN; POVERTY; SOCIOECONOMICS; SOCIOLOGY; UNITED STATES;

HOMICIDE; HUMANS; INCOME; INTERPERSONAL RELATIONS; SOCIAL BEHAVIOR; UNITED STATES; VIOLENCE;

USA;

EID: 0031805143     PISSN: 02779536     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0277-9536(98)00097-5     Document Type: Article

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