Immigration and violent crime: Citizenship status and social disorganization

Homicide Studies

Volumn 13, Issue 3, 2009, Pages 227-241

  Olson, Christa Polczynski ^a   Laurikkala, Minna K ^b   Huff Corzine, Lin ^a   Corzine, Jay ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CENTRAL FLORIDA   (United States)

^b SHENANDOAH UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Homicide; Immigration; Social disorganization; Violent crime

Indexed keywords

EID: 70349144401     PISSN: 10887679     EISSN: 15526720     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1177/1088767909336202     Document Type: Article

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