Crime and community heterogeneity: Race, ethnicity, and religion

Applied Economics Letters

Volumn 13, Issue 6, 2006, Pages 341-345

  Trawick, Michelle W ^a   Howsen, Roy M ^a  

^a WESTERN KENTUCKY UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AFRICAN AMERICAN; CRIME; ETHNICITY; RACE; RELIGION;

NORTH AMERICA; UNITED STATES;

EID: 33646799815     PISSN: 13504851     EISSN: 14664291     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/13504850500395324     Document Type: Article

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