Cause or consequence?: Suburbanization and crime in U.S. metropolitan areas

Crime and Delinquency

Volumn 55, Issue 1, 2009, Pages 28-50

  Jargowsky, Paul A ^a   Park, Yoonhwan ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TEXAS AT DALLAS   (United States)

Author keywords

Crime; Neighborhood; Poverty; Sprawl; Suburbanization

Indexed keywords

EID: 57149142048     PISSN: 00111287     EISSN: 1552387X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1177/0011128708323630     Document Type: Article

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