A Move Toward Specificity: Examining Urban Disadvantage and Race-and Relationship-Specific Homicide Rates

Journal of Quantitative Criminology

Volumn 17, Issue 1, 2001, Pages 89-110

  Parker, Karen F ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF FLORIDA   (United States)

Author keywords

Concentrated disadvantage; Race specific homicide; Types of homicide

Indexed keywords

EID: 0035590177     PISSN: 07484518     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1023/A:1007578516197     Document Type: Article

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