American Indian homicide: A county-level analysis utilizing social disorganization theory

Homicide Studies

Volumn 10, Issue 3, 2006, Pages 181-194

  Lanier, Christina ^a   Huff Corzine, Lin ^b,c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF DELAWARE   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF CENTRAL FLORIDA   (United States)

^c Deaprtment of Sociology ^*  (United States)

Author keywords

American Indians; Homicide rates; Social disorganization

Indexed keywords

EID: 33745171044     PISSN: 10887679     EISSN: 15526720     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1177/1088767906288573     Document Type: Article

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