Homicide as Infectious Disease: Using Public Health Methods to Investigate the Diffusion of Homicide

Justice Quarterly

Volumn 31, Issue 3, 2014, Pages 609-632

  Zeoli, April M ^a   Pizarro, Jesenia M ^a   Grady, Sue C ^b   Melde, Christopher ^a  

^a MICHIGAN STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b MICHIGAN STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

firearms; gangs; homicide; public health

Indexed keywords

EID: 84898455791     PISSN: 07418825     EISSN: 17459109     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/07418825.2012.732100     Document Type: Article

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