Neighborhood dynamics of urban violence: Understanding the immigration connection

Homicide Studies

Volumn 13, Issue 3, 2009, Pages 261-273

  Chavez, Jorge M ^a   Griffiths, Elizabeth ^b  

^a BOWLING GREEN STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b EMORY UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Foreign born; Homicide trajectories; Neighborhoods; Recent immigrant

Indexed keywords

EID: 70349125337     PISSN: 10887679     EISSN: 15526720     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1177/1088767909337701     Document Type: Article

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