Professionals or amateurs? Revisiting the notion of professional crime in the context of cannabis cultivation

World Wide Weed: Global Trends in Cannabis Cultivation and its Control

Volumn , Issue , 2011, Pages 109-125

  Bouchard, Martin ^a   Nguyen, Holly ^b  

^a SIMON FRASER UNIVERSITY   (Canada)

^b NONE

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