The Foreclosure Crisis and Crime: Is Housing-Mortgage Stress Associated with Violent and Property Crime in U.S. Metropolitan Areas?

Social Science Quarterly

Volumn 93, Issue 3, 2012, Pages 671-691

  Jones, Roderick W ^a   Pridemore, William Alex ^a  

^a INDIANA UNIVERSITY   (United States)

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EID: 84864829607     PISSN: 00384941     EISSN: 15406237     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1540-6237.2012.00887.x     Document Type: Article

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