Good Policy Can Lower Violent Crime: Evidence from a Cross-National Panel of Homicide Rates, 1980-97

Journal of Peace Research

Volumn 40, Issue 6, 2003, Pages 619-640

  Neumayer, Eric ^a  

^a LONDON SCHOOL OF ECONOMICS   (United Kingdom)

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EID: 0344927009     PISSN: 00223433     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1177/00223433030406001     Document Type: Review

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