Intergroup and intragroup violence: Is violent crime an expression of group conflict or social disorganization?

Criminology

Volumn 47, Issue 2, 2009, Pages 521-564

  Hipp, John R ^a   Tita, George E ^a   Boggess, Lyndsay N ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

Author keywords

Dynamic; Group threat theory; Inequality; Intergroup crime; Intragroup crime; Neighborhoods; Racial ethnic heterogeneity; Racial ethnic transition; Segregation

Indexed keywords

EID: 65949102317     PISSN: 00111384     EISSN: 17459125     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1745-9125.2009.00150.x     Document Type: Article

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