Gang membership, drug selling, and violence in neighborhood context

Justice Quarterly

Volumn 26, Issue 4, 2009, Pages 644-669

  Bellair, Paul E ^a   Mcnulty, Thomas L ^a  

^a STATE UNIVERSITY OF NEW YORK   (United States)

Author keywords

Conditional effects; Drug selling; Fixed effects; Gang membership; Hierarchical modeling; Neighborhood disadvantage; Social learning; Violence

Indexed keywords

EID: 70350763812     PISSN: 07418825     EISSN: 17459109     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/07418820802593394     Document Type: Article

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