An ecological assessment of property and violent crime rates across a Latino urban landscape: The role of social disorganization and institutional anomie theory

Western Criminology Review

Volumn 8, Issue 1, 2007, Pages 69-87

  Cancino, Jeffrey Michael ^a   Varano, Sean Patrick ^b   Schafer, Joseph A ^c   Enriquez, Roger ^d  

^a TEXAS STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b NORTHEASTERN UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^c SOUTHERN ILLINOIS UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^d UNIVERSITY OF TEXAS AT SAN ANTONIO   (United States)

Author keywords

Census block groups; Crime; Institutional anomie; Interaction terms; Latinos; Social disorganization

Indexed keywords

EID: 34248141636     PISSN: None     EISSN: 10964886     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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