Egohoods as waves washing across the city: A new measure of "neighborhoods"

Criminology

Volumn 51, Issue 2, 2013, Pages 287-327

  Hipp, John R ^a   Boessen, Adam ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

Author keywords

Aggregation; Crime; Neighborhoods; Spatial effects

Indexed keywords

EID: 84877670951     PISSN: 00111384     EISSN: 17459125     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/1745-9125.12006     Document Type: Article

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