The Association Between Social Disorganization and Rural Violence Is Sensitive to the Measurement of the Dependent Variable

Criminal Justice Review

Volumn 38, Issue 2, 2013, Pages 169-189

  Kaylen, Maria T ^a   Pridemore, William Alex ^a  

^a INDIANA UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

crime delinquency theory; criminal victimization; quantitative methods; structural theories of crime causation

Indexed keywords

EID: 84878037046     PISSN: 07340168     EISSN: 15563839     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1177/0734016813476715     Document Type: Article

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