Crossing the racial divide: A spatial-ecological perspective of offenders in the City of Tshwane Metropolitan Municipality, South Africa

GeoJournal

Volumn 67, Issue 3, 2006, Pages 181-194

  Breetzke, Gregory D ^a   Horn, André Carl ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF PRETORIA   (South Africa)

Author keywords

Crime; Offender rate; Racial inequalities; Social status; South Africa

Indexed keywords

CORRELATION METHODS; ECONOMIC AND SOCIAL EFFECTS; GEOGRAPHIC INFORMATION SYSTEMS; RESEARCH AND DEVELOPMENT MANAGEMENT; SOUTH AFRICA;

OFFENDER RATE; RACIAL INEQUALITIES; SOCIAL STATUS;

ECOLOGY;

AGING POPULATION; CRIME; HOUSEHOLD INCOME; POLITICAL INSTABILITY; POST-APARTHEID; PRINCIPAL COMPONENT ANALYSIS; RACIAL DISPARITY; RACIAL SEGREGATION; RESIDENTIAL MOBILITY; SOCIAL STATUS; SOCIOECONOMIC CONDITIONS;

AFRICA; GAUTENG; SOUTH AFRICA; SOUTHERN AFRICA; SUB-SAHARAN AFRICA; TSHWANE;

EID: 34247887606     PISSN: 03432521     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s10708-007-9044-5     Document Type: Article

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