Crime across the States: Are US Crime Rates Converging?

Urban Studies

Volumn 50, Issue 9, 2013, Pages 1724-1741

  Cook, Steve ^a   Winfield, Tom ^a  

^a SWANSEA UNIVERSITY   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CLASSIFICATION; CRIME; POLICY APPROACH; SOCIOECONOMIC CONDITIONS; TEMPORAL ANALYSIS; URBAN POLICY;

UNITED STATES;

EID: 84878870814     PISSN: 00420980     EISSN: 1360063X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1177/0042098012466602     Document Type: Article

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