Economic Reform and Crime in Contemporary Urban China: Paradoxes of a Planned Transition

Urban China in Transition

Volumn , Issue , 2008, Pages 271-293

  Messner, Steven F ^a   Liu, Jianhong ^b   Karstedt, Susanne ^c  

^a STATE UNIVERSITY OF NEW YORK   (United States)

^b RHODE ISLAND COLLEGE   (United States)

^c KEELE UNIVERSITY   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Chinese cities; Crime; Economic reform; Social transition; Urban China

Indexed keywords

EID: 50249085269     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Book    
DOI: 10.1002/9780470712870.ch12     Document Type: Chapter

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