Housing, gangs, and homicide: What we can learn from Chicago

Urban Affairs Review

Volumn 42, Issue 4, 2007, Pages 435-456

  Hagedorn, John ^a   Rauch, Brigid ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ILLINOIS AT CHICAGO   (United States)

Author keywords

Gangs; Globalization; Homicide; Housing; Violence

Indexed keywords

CRIME; GLOBALIZATION; POLICY IMPLEMENTATION; URBAN SOCIETY; VIOLENCE;

CALIFORNIA; CHICAGO; ILLINOIS; LOS ANGELES; NEW YORK [NEW YORK (STT)]; NEW YORK [UNITED STATES]; NORTH AMERICA; UNITED STATES;

EID: 33847322981     PISSN: 10780874     EISSN: 15528332     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1177/1078087406294435     Document Type: Article

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