Did criminal activity increase during the 1980s? Comparisons across data sources

Social Science Quarterly

Volumn 78, Issue 3, 1997, Pages 725-739

  Boggess, Scott ^a   Bound, John ^b  

^a GEORGETOWN UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b NONE

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