Personal Criminal Victimization in the United States: Fixed and Random Effects of Individual and Household Characteristics

Journal of Quantitative Criminology

Volumn 16, Issue 4, 2000, Pages 415-442

  Tseloni, Andromachi ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MARYLAND   (United States)

Author keywords

Household heterogeneity; Incidence; Multilevel negative binomial model; Personal crimes; Random effects

Indexed keywords

EID: 0034559218     PISSN: 07484518     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1023/A:1007547115344     Document Type: Article

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