Entertainment starts with an E: The ecstasy market in Greece

Trends in Organized Crime

Volumn 13, Issue 1, 2010, Pages 31-45

  Antonopoulos, Georgios A ^a   Papanicolaou, Georgios ^a   Simpson, Mark ^a  

^a TEESSIDE UNIVERSITY   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Ecstasy; Greece; Night time economy

Indexed keywords

EID: 80052013173     PISSN: 10844791     EISSN: 19364830     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s12117-009-9088-7     Document Type: Article

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