Racial and ethnic disparities in crime and delinquency in the United States

Ethnicity and Causal Mechanisms

Volumn , Issue , 2004, Pages 139-173

  Morenoff, Jeffrey D ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MICHIGAN   (United States)

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DOI: 10.1017/CBO9781139140348.008     Document Type: Chapter

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