The nature of newspaper coverage of homicide

Injury Prevention

Volumn 8, Issue 2, 2002, Pages 121-127

  Taylor, Catherine A ^a   Sorenson, S B ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; BIBLIOMETRICS; CHI SQUARE DISTRIBUTION; ETHNIC GROUP; HOMICIDE; HUMAN; MULTIVARIATE ANALYSIS; PUBLIC OPINION; PUBLICATION; STATISTICS; UNITED STATES;

BIBLIOMETRICS; CHI-SQUARE DISTRIBUTION; ETHNIC GROUPS; HOMICIDE; HUMANS; LOS ANGELES; MULTIVARIATE ANALYSIS; NEWSPAPERS; PUBLIC OPINION;

EID: 0036595815     PISSN: 13538047     EISSN: 14755785     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1136/ip.8.2.121     Document Type: Article

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