Juvenile Homicides : a Social Disorganization Perspective.
Laurikkala studies youth homicides between 1965 and 1995 in Chicago. She considers variables relating to the offender, victim, setting, and precursors to the homicide by race and gender. Her results indicate that youth homicides involved increases in lethal gang altercations, particularly among Lati...
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| Format: | Electronic eBook |
| Language: | English |
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El Paso :
LFB Scholarly Pub. LLC,
2011.
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Full text (MFA users only) |
| ISBN: | 9781593326685 1593326688 |
| Local Note: | ProQuest Ebook Central |
Table of Contents:
- List of Tables; Acknowledgments; Preface; 01 Killing Trends; 02 What Does Age, Race, and Gender Have to Do With It?; 03 Chaos in the 'Hoods; 04 Toolkit for Homicide Analysis; 05 Pieces of the Homicide Puzzle; 06 Forecasting Homicides; 07 What Now?; Appendix A: Homicide Variables; Appendix B: Census Variables; Appendix C: Models Fitting Regressions; References; Index.