Reassessing Trends In Black Violent Crime, 1980-2008: Sorting Out The "Hispanic Effect" In Uniform Crime Reports Arrests, National Crime Victimization Survey Offender Estimates, And U.S. Prisoner Counts

Criminology

Volumn 49, Issue 1, 2011, Pages 197-251

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

^a PENNSYLVANIA STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF TENNESSEE   (United States)

Author keywords

Disparities; Hispanics; Incarceration; Race; Trends; Violence

Indexed keywords

EID: 79951980566     PISSN: 00111384     EISSN: 17459125     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1745-9125.2010.00222.x     Document Type: Article

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