Immigration, economic disadvantage, and homicide: A community-level analysis of Austin, Texas

Homicide Studies

Volumn 13, Issue 3, 2009, Pages 307-314

  Akins, Scott ^a   Rumbaut, Rubén G ^b   Stansfield, Richard ^a  

^a OREGON STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

Author keywords

Disadvantage; Homicide; Immigration; Violence

Indexed keywords

EID: 70349130690     PISSN: 10887679     EISSN: 15526720     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1177/1088767909336814     Document Type: Article

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