Racial similarity in the relationship between poverty and homicide rates: Comparing retransformed coefficients

Social Science Research

Volumn 34, Issue 4, 2005, Pages 893-914

  Hannon, Lance ^a   Knapp, Peter ^b   DeFina, Robert ^b  

^a OCCIDENTAL COLLEGE   (United States)

^b VILLANOVA UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Disadvantage; Homicide; Logarithmic; Poisson; Poverty; Race specific

Indexed keywords

EID: 28844498522     PISSN: 0049089X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.ssresearch.2005.01.004     Document Type: Article

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