Counterbalancing disadvantage? Residential integration and urban black homicide

Social Problems

Volumn 54, Issue 2, 2007, Pages 240-262

  Lee, Matthew R ^a   Ousey, Graham C ^b  

^a LOUISIANA STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b The College of William and Mary   (United States)

Author keywords

Black violence; Homicide; Segregation; Urban; Violence

Indexed keywords

EID: 34249875682     PISSN: 00377791     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1525/sp.2007.54.2.240     Document Type: Article

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