Unemployment and property crime: A target-specific assessment of opportunity and motivation as mediating factors

Criminology

Volumn 40, Issue 3, 2002, Pages 649-680

  Kleck, Gary ^a   Chiricos, Ted ^a  

^a FLORIDA STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Crime; Motivation; Opportunity; Unemployment

Indexed keywords

EID: 0036689398     PISSN: 00111384     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1745-9125.2002.tb00969.x     Document Type: Article

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