The company you keep? The spillover effects of gang membership on individual gunshot victimization in a co-offending network

Criminology

Volumn 53, Issue 4, 2015, Pages 624-649

  Papachristos, Andrew V ^a   Braga, Anthony A ^b,c   Piza, Eric ^d   Grossman, Leigh S ^b  

^a YALE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b RUTGERS UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^c HARVARD UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^d JOHN JAY COLLEGE OF CRIMINAL JUSTICE   (United States)

Author keywords

Gun violence; Social networks; Street gangs

Indexed keywords

EID: 84955170248     PISSN: 00111384     EISSN: 17459125     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/1745-9125.12091     Document Type: Article

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