Local Inequality and Crime: Exploring how Variation in the Scale of Inequality Measures Affects Relationships between Inequality and Crime

Urban Studies

Volumn 50, Issue 4, 2013, Pages 725-741

  Whitworth, Adam ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF SHEFFIELD   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CRIME; EMPIRICAL ANALYSIS; MEASUREMENT METHOD; SOCIAL PROBLEM; THEORETICAL STUDY; UNCERTAINTY ANALYSIS;

EID: 84874003658     PISSN: 00420980     EISSN: 1360063X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1177/0042098012455716     Document Type: Article

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