Poverty, infant mortality, and homicide rates in cross-national perspective: Assessments of criterion and construct validity

Criminology

Volumn 48, Issue 2, 2010, Pages 509-537

  Messner, Steven F ^a   Raffalovich, Lawrence E ^a   Sutton, Gretchen M ^a  

^a STATE UNIVERSITY OF NEW YORK   (United States)

Author keywords

Cross national homicide; Infant mortality; Poverty; Validity

Indexed keywords

EID: 77954275245     PISSN: 00111384     EISSN: 17459125     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1745-9125.2010.00194.x     Document Type: Article

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