Local social ties in a community and crime model: Questioning the systemic nature of informal social control

Social Problems

Volumn 44, Issue 4, 1997, Pages 520-536

  Warner, Barbara D ^a   Rountree, Pamela Wilcox ^a  

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EID: 0038433252     PISSN: 00377791     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.2307/3097221     Document Type: Article

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