Homicide as Infectious Disease: Using Public Health Methods to Investigate the Diffusion of Homicide.

This study examined the spatial and temporal movement of homicide in Newark, New Jersey from January 1982 through September 2008. We hypothesized that homicide would diffuse in a similar process to an infectious disease with firearms and gangs operating as the infectious agents. A total of 2,366 hom...

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Publicado en:	JQ: Justice Quarterly Vol. 31; no. 3; pp. 609 - 633
Autores principales:	Zeoli, April M., Pizarro, Jesenia M., Grady, Sue C., Melde, Christopher
Formato:	Artículo
Publicado:	Taylor & Francis Ltd Jun2014
Materias:	New Jersey Homicide Infectious disease transmission Gangs Firearms & crime Violent deaths
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