Labor market conditions and violent crime across the metro-nonmetro divide

Social Science Research

Volumn 37, Issue 3, 2008, Pages 753-768

  Lee, Matthew R ^a   Slack, Tim ^a  

^a LOUISIANA STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Labor markets; Nonmetropolitan; Violence

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; CRIME; ECONOMICS; EMPLOYMENT; FACTORIAL ANALYSIS; HUMAN; MULTIVARIATE ANALYSIS; REGRESSION ANALYSIS; RURAL POPULATION; SALARY AND FRINGE BENEFIT; STATISTICS; UNITED STATES; URBAN POPULATION; VIOLENCE;

CRIME; EMPLOYMENT; FACTOR ANALYSIS, STATISTICAL; HUMANS; MULTIVARIATE ANALYSIS; REGRESSION ANALYSIS; RURAL POPULATION; SALARIES AND FRINGE BENEFITS; UNITED STATES; URBAN POPULATION; VIOLENCE;

EID: 43849103615     PISSN: 0049089X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.ssresearch.2007.09.001     Document Type: Article

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