Drug enforcement and crime: Recent evidence from New York state

Social Science Quarterly

Volumn 86, Issue 2, 2005, Pages 323-342

  Shepard, Edward M ^a   Blackley, Paul R ^a  

^a LE MOYNE COLLEGE   (United States)

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EID: 20444498692     PISSN: 00384941     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.0038-4941.2005.00305.x     Document Type: Article

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