The Truly Disadvantaged, Public Assistance, and Crime.

This study examines the conditioning effect of welfare benefits on the relationship between resource deprivation and metropolitan crime rates. We analyzed aggregate data for a sample of large metropolitan counties in 1990 (N = 406). Our welfare measure combined the cost-of-living-adjusted public ass...

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Bibliographic Details
Main Authors: Hannon, Lance., Defronzo, James.
Format: Villanova Faculty Authorship
Language:English
Published: 1998
Online Access:http://ezproxy.villanova.edu/login?url=https://digital.library.villanova.edu/Item/vudl:176723

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