Structural shifts in select determinants of crime with a focus on rural and urban differences

Western Criminology Review

Volumn 12, Issue 3, 2011, Pages 120-138

  Deller, Steven C ^a   Deller, Melissa W ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF WISCONSIN MADISON   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF WISCONSIN WHITEWATER   (United States)

Author keywords

Crime rates; Inequality; Poverty; Structural shifts

Indexed keywords

EID: 81555213020     PISSN: None     EISSN: 10964886     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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