Neighborhood Structural Characteristics, Individual-Level Attitudes, And Youths' Crime Reporting Intentions

Criminology

Volumn 48, Issue 4, 2010, Pages 1063-1100

  Ann Slocum, Lee ^a   Taylor, Terrance J ^a   Brick, Bradley T ^b   Esbensen, Finn Aage ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MISSOURI ST LOUIS   (United States)

^b OLD DOMINION UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Crime reporting; Juveniles; Neighborhood context

Indexed keywords

EID: 78649689981     PISSN: 00111384     EISSN: 17459125     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1745-9125.2010.00212.x     Document Type: Article

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