The Trump Hypothesis: Testing Immigrant Populations as a Determinant of Violent and Drug-Related Crime in the United States*

Social Science Quarterly

Volumn 97, Issue 3, 2016, Pages 506-524

  Green, David ^a  

^a NAGOYA UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

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EID: 84983435726     PISSN: 00384941     EISSN: 15406237     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/ssqu.12300     Document Type: Article

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