What mediates the macro-level effects of economic and social stress on crime?

Australian and New Zealand Journal of Criminology

Volumn 39, Issue 3, 2006, Pages 384-397

  Weatherburn, Don ^a   Lind, Bronwyn ^a  

^a NSW Bureau of Crime Statistics and Research   (Australia)

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EID: 33845501388     PISSN: 00048658     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1375/acri.39.3.384     Document Type: Conference Paper

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