Scope And Conceptual Issues In Testing The Race-Crime Invariance Thesis: Black, White, And Hispanic Comparisons

Criminology

Volumn 48, Issue 4, 2010, Pages 1133-1169

  Steffensmeier, Darrell ^a   Ulmer, Jeffery T ^a   Feldmeyer, Ben ^b   Harris, Casey T ^a  

^a PENNSYLVANIA STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF TENNESSEE   (United States)

Author keywords

Hispanics; Homicide; Racial invariance; Violence

Indexed keywords

EID: 78649713188     PISSN: 00111384     EISSN: 17459125     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1745-9125.2010.00214.x     Document Type: Article

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