Assessing the race-violence relationship at the macro level: The assumption of racial invariance and the problem of restricted distributions

Criminology

Volumn 39, Issue 2, 2001, Pages 467-490

  Mcnulty, Thomas L ^a  

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DOI: 10.1111/j.1745-9125.2001.tb00930.x     Document Type: Article

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