Hispanics and Violent Crime in the United States: Examining the Effect of Segregation

The purpose of this study focuses on Hispanics and violent crime. Previous studies (Krivo and Peterson, 1993, Shihadeh and Flynn, 1996) analyze crime rates among blacks; however, the research on Hispanics is very limited (Massey and Denton, 1992). The majority of sociological studies analyze racial...

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Mecom, Dorothy
Other Authors: William B.Bankston
Format: Others
Language:en
Published: LSU 2002
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Online Access:http://etd.lsu.edu/docs/available/etd-0711102-192732/