Drilling down: An examination of the boom-crime relationship in resource-based boom counties

Western Criminology Review

Volumn 15, Issue 1, 2014, Pages 3-17

  Ruddell, Rick ^a   Jayasundara, Dheeshana S ^b   Mayzer, Roni ^b   Heitkamp, Thomasine ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF REGINA   (Canada)

^b UNIVERSITY OF NORTH DAKOTA   (United States)

Author keywords

Boomtown effects; Boomtowns; Resource based booms; Rural crime

Indexed keywords

EID: 84901422952     PISSN: None     EISSN: 10964886     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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