Cops grants and crime revisited

Criminology

Volumn 45, Issue 1, 2007, Pages 159-190

  Worrall, John L ^a   Kovandzic, Tomislav V ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TEXAS AT DALLAS   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF ALABAMA AT BIRMINGHAM   (United States)

Author keywords

COPS grants; Panel data; Police spending; Serious crime

Indexed keywords

EID: 33947151395     PISSN: 00111384     EISSN: 17459125     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1745-9125.2007.00075.x     Document Type: Article

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