City and/or Neighbourhood Determinants?: Studying Contextual Effects on Youth Delinquency

European Journal of Criminology

Volumn 6, Issue 5, 2009, Pages 439-455

  Weijters, Gijs ^a   Scheepers, Peer ^b   Gerris, Jan ^b  

^a Ministry of Justice

^b RADBOUD UNIVERSITY NIJMEGEN   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

Cities and Neighbourhoods; Multilevel Analysis; Social Disorganization Theory; Youth Delinquency

Indexed keywords

EID: 77950752529     PISSN: 14773708     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1177/1477370809337883     Document Type: Article

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