Gun incidents at the local level: understanding the demographic variables

Criminal Justice Studies

Volumn 26, Issue 2, 2013, Pages 213-227

  Jiao, Allan Y ^a  

^a ROWAN UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

database; demographic variables; gun cases; local police

Indexed keywords

EID: 84877270950     PISSN: 1478601X     EISSN: 14786028     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/1478601X.2012.710614     Document Type: Article

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