Immigration: America's nineteenth-century "law and order problem?"

Frontiers of Economics and Globalization

Volumn 8, Issue , 2010, Pages 295-323

  Bodenhorn, Howard ^a,b   Moehling, Carolyn M ^b,c   Piehl, Anne Morrison ^b,c  

^a Bowling Green State University   (United States)

^b NATIONAL BUREAU OF ECONOMIC RESEARCH   (United States)

^c RUTGERS UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Crime; Immigration; Prisons

Indexed keywords

EID: 84896498226     PISSN: 15748715     EISSN: None     Source Type: Book Series    
DOI: 10.1108/S1574-8715(2010)0000008018     Document Type: Article

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