Assessing "neighborhood effects": Social processes and new directions in research

Annual Review of Sociology

Volumn 28, Issue , 2002, Pages 443-478

  Sampson, Robert J ^a   Morenoff, Jeffrey D ^a   Gannon Rowley, Thomas ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CHICAGO   (United States)

Author keywords

Ecology; Mechanisms; Neighborhood effects; Problem behavior; Social processes

Indexed keywords

EID: 0036025777     PISSN: 03600572     EISSN: None     Source Type: Book Series    
DOI: 10.1146/annurev.soc.28.110601.141114     Document Type: Review

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