The Gang Problem: Fabricated Panics or Real Temporal Patterns?

Homicide Studies

Volumn 17, Issue 3, 2013, Pages 275-290

  Jensen, Gary F ^a   Thibodeaux, Jarrett ^a  

^a VANDERBILT UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

data merging; gang; historical methodology; methodology; subtypes; trends; youth juvenile

Indexed keywords

EID: 84880498487     PISSN: 10887679     EISSN: 15526720     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1177/1088767912460664     Document Type: Article

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