Income inequality and crime in the United States

Economics Letters

Volumn 101, Issue 1, 2008, Pages 31-33

  Choe, Jongmook ^a  

^a GEORGE WASHINGTON UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Crime; Gini ratio; I32; Inequality; K42

Indexed keywords

EID: 49949101338     PISSN: 01651765     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.econlet.2008.03.025     Document Type: Article

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