Examining The Generality Of The Unemployment-Crime Association

Criminology

Volumn 51, Issue 3, 2013, Pages 561-594

  Aaltonen, Mikko ^a   Macdonald, John M ^b   Martikainen, Pekka ^c   Kivivuori, Janne ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF HELSINKI   (Finland)

^b UNIVERSITY OF PENNSYLVANIA   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF HELSINKI   (Finland)

Author keywords

Administrative data; Crime; Unemployment; Within individual analysis

Indexed keywords

EID: 84881612968     PISSN: 00111384     EISSN: 17459125     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/1745-9125.12012     Document Type: Article

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