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Gangs in Rural America, 1996-1998

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Principal Investigator(s): Weisheit, Ralph A.; Wells, L. Edward

Summary: This study was undertaken to enable cross-community analysis of gang trends in all areas of the United States. It was also designed to provide a comparative analysis of social, economic, and demographic differences among non-metropolitan jurisdictions in which gangs were reported to have been persistent problems, those in which gangs had been more transitory, and those that reported no gang problems. Data were collected from four separate sources and then merged into a single dataset usin... (view details)

Persistent URL: http://dx.doi.org/10.3886/ICPSR03398.v1

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