Crime volume and law and order culture

Justice Quarterly

Volumn 24, Issue 2, 2007, Pages 291-308

  Stack, Steven ^a,c   Cao, Liqun ^b   Adamzyck, Amy ^b  

^a Departments of Psychiatry and Neuroscience and Criminology   (United States)

^b Department of Sociology and Criminology ^*

^c WAYNE STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Attitudes; Crime volume; Cross national; Death penality; Homicide rates; Law and order culture; Public opinion; Punitiveness; Stiffer sentences

Indexed keywords

EID: 34248530296     PISSN: 07418825     EISSN: 17459109     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/07418820701294839     Document Type: Article

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