Income inequality, race, and place: Does the distribution of race and class within neighborhoods affect crime rates?

Criminology

Volumn 45, Issue 3, 2007, Pages 665-697

  Hipp, John R ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

Author keywords

Crime; Fixed effects model; Income inequality; Neighborhoods; Racial ethnic heterogeneity; Spatial effects

Indexed keywords

EID: 34548836578     PISSN: 00111384     EISSN: 17459125     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1745-9125.2007.00088.x     Document Type: Review

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