Explaining Japan's postwar violent crime trends

Criminology

Volumn 42, Issue 1, 2004, Pages 179-210

  Roberts, Aki ^a   LaFree, Gary ^b,c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF NEW MEXICO   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF MARYLAND   (United States)

^c University of New Mexico ^*

Author keywords

Crime trend; Japan; Pooled time series analysis

Indexed keywords

EID: 1642587116     PISSN: 00111384     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1745-9125.2004.tb00517.x     Document Type: Review

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