Violent crime and modernization in Colombia

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This paper assesses violent crime in Colombia by focusing on police arrest data from 1938 to 1967. Social and political conditions provide the cultural context from which the effects of modernization on crime are examined. Shelley's modermization perspective claims that violent crime increases...

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Authors: Bouley, Eugene E. (Author) ; Vaughn, Michael (Author)
Format: Electronic Article
Language:English
Published: 1995
In: Crime, law and social change
Year: 1995, Volume: 23, Issue: 1, Pages: 17-40
Online Access: Volltext (lizenzpflichtig)
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Keywords:
Cultural Context
International Relation
Modernization Theory
Regression Result
Violent Crime
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