The correlation between race and domestic violence is confounded with community context

Social Problems

Volumn 51, Issue 3, 2004, Pages 326-342

  Benson, Michael L ^a   Wooldredge, John ^a   Thistlethwaite, Amy B ^b   Fox, Greer Litton ^c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CINCINNATI   (United States)

^b NORTHERN KENTUCKY UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF TENNESSEE   (United States)

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EID: 3543093431     PISSN: 00377791     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1525/sp.2004.51.3.326     Document Type: Review

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