Opportunities and decisions: Interactional dynamics in robbery and burglary groups

Criminology

Volumn 39, Issue 3, 2001, Pages 737-764

  Hochstetler, Andy ^a  

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DOI: 10.1111/j.1745-9125.2001.tb00939.x     Document Type: Article

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