TY  - JOUR
PY  - 1984//
TI  - Social Structure and Crime Control Among Macrosocial Units
JO  - American journal of sociology
A1  - Liska, Allen E.
A1  - Chamlin, Mitchell B.
SP  - 383
EP  - 395
VL  - 90
IS  - 2
N2  - Recent research, drawing on the conflict perspective, has examined the effect of the racial/economic composition of macrosocial units on the capacity for crime control (arrest rates). The results show that there is considerable variation in arrest rates between cities and that racial/economic composition substantially affects them, independently of reported crime rates. The effects are specified by type of arrest (property and personal) and race of offender (white and non-white).<p />
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SN  - 0002-9602
UR  - http://dx.doi.org/10.1086/228084
ID  - ref1
ER  -