Learning through controlled experiments: Community service and heroin prescription in Switzerland

Crime and Delinquency

Volumn 46, Issue 2, 2000, Pages 233-251

  Killias, Martin ^a   Aebi, Marcelo F ^a   Ribeaud, Denis ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF LAUSANNE   (Switzerland)

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EID: 23044519127     PISSN: 00111287     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1177/0011128700046002006     Document Type: Article

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