Unemployment and Crime Rate Fluctuations: A Comment on Greenberg

Journal of Quantitative Criminology

Volumn 17, Issue 4, 2001, Pages 329-342

  Cantor, David ^a   Land, Kenneth C ^b  

^a WESTAT   (United States)

^b DUKE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Crime rates; Time series analysis; Unemployment rates

Indexed keywords

EID: 0035733095     PISSN: 07484518     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1023/A:1012585603639     Document Type: Article

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