Now Serving Part Two Crimes: Testing the Relationship Between Welfare Spending and Property Crimes

Criminal Justice Policy Review

Volumn 16, Issue 3, 2005, Pages 360-384

  Burek, Melissa W ^a  

^a BOWLING GREEN STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

part two offenses; property crimes; welfare spending

Indexed keywords

EID: 34247658366     PISSN: 08874034     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1177/0887403405274782     Document Type: Article

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