Why Some Immigrant Neighborhoods Are Safer than Others: Divergent Findings from Los Angeles and Chicago

Annals of the American Academy of Political and Social Science

Volumn 641, Issue 1, 2012, Pages 148-173

  Kubrin, Charis E ^a   Ishizawa, Hiromi ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^b GEORGE WASHINGTON UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

crime; immigration; neighborhoods; spatial analysis

Indexed keywords

EID: 84859199169     PISSN: 00027162     EISSN: 15523349     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1177/0002716211431688     Document Type: Article

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