Job access and homicide patterns in Chicago: An analysis at multiple geographic levels based on scale-space theory

Journal of Quantitative Criminology

Volumn 21, Issue 2, 2005, Pages 195-217

  Wang, Fahui ^a  

^a NORTHERN ILLINOIS UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Areas of small population; Geographic information systems; Homicide; Job access; Regionalization; Scale space theory

Indexed keywords

EID: 18144402080     PISSN: 07484518     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s10940-005-2492-5     Document Type: Article

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