Twenty years of rural and urban trends in family and intimate partner homicide: Does place matter?

Homicide Studies

Volumn 9, Issue 2, 2005, Pages 149-173

  Gallup Black, Adria ^a  

^a Global Eng Education Exchange   (United States)

Author keywords

Family; Intimate partner; Rural

Indexed keywords

EID: 21644488214     PISSN: 10887679     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1177/1088767904274158     Document Type: Article

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