Mortgage Foreclosures and the Changing Mix of Crime in Micro-neighborhoods

Journal of Research in Crime and Delinquency

Volumn 52, Issue 5, 2015, Pages 717-746

  Lacoe, Johanna ^a   Ellen, Ingrid Gould ^b,c  

^a MATHEMATICA POLICY RESEARCH   (United States)

^b NEW YORK UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^c NEW YORK UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

causes correlates; communities and crime; crime; criminological theory; policy; routine activity theory; social disorganization

Indexed keywords

EID: 84938567579     PISSN: 00224278     EISSN: 1552731X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1177/0022427815572633     Document Type: Article

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