Unemployment and Crime: Toward Resolving the Paradox

Journal of Quantitative Criminology

Volumn 14, Issue 3, 1998, Pages 215-243

  Kapuscinski, Cezary A ^a   Braithwaite, John ^a   Chapman, Bruce ^a  

^a AUSTRALIAN NATIONAL UNIVERSITY   (Australia)

Author keywords

Crime; Cross section data; Homicide; Time series data; Unemployment

Indexed keywords

EID: 0032353445     PISSN: 07484518     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1023/A:1023033328731     Document Type: Article

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