Racial threat, concentrated disadvantage and social control: Considering the macro-level sources of variation in arrests

Criminology

Volumn 43, Issue 4, 2005, Pages 1111-1134

  Parker, Karen F ^a   Stults, Brian J ^a   Rice, Stephen K ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF FLORIDA   (United States)

^b SETON HALL UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Arrest rates; Concentrated disadvantage; Racial threat; Social control

Indexed keywords

EID: 31144441404     PISSN: 00111384     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1745-9125.2005.00034.x     Document Type: Review

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