Violent crime in African american and white neighborhoods: Is poverty's detrimental effect race-specific?

Journal of Poverty

Volumn 9, Issue 3, 2005, Pages 49-67

  Hannon, Lance ^a   DeFina, Robert ^a  

^a VILLANOVA UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Neighborhood disadvantage; Poverty; Racial invariance; Spatial; Violent crime

Indexed keywords

EID: 28844507022     PISSN: 10875549     EISSN: 15407608     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1300/J134v09n03_03     Document Type: Article

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