Relative and absolute deprivation’s relationship with violent crime in the United States: testing an interaction effect between income inequality and disadvantage

Relative deprivation and absolute deprivation both have effects on crime. Although these two concepts are often treated as separate, some scholarship has suggested that the two may be complementary. The current study assesses whether the effects of relative and absolute deprivation interact statisti...

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Main Author: Burraston, Bert (Author)
Contributors: McCutcheon, James C. (Other) ; Watts, Stephen J. (Other)
Format: Electronic Article
Language:English
Published: 2018
In: Crime & delinquency
Year: 2018, Volume: 64, Issue: 4, Pages: 542-560
Online Access: Volltext (Resolving-System)
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Keywords:
Violent crime
Relative deprivation
Absolute deprivation
Income inequality
Macro-level studies