Improved street lighting

Preventing Crime: What Works for Children, Offenders, Victims, and Places

Volumn , Issue , 2006, Pages 209-224

  Farrington, David P ^a   Welsh, Brandon C ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CAMBRIDGE   (United Kingdom)

^b UNIVERSITY OF MASSACHUSETTS LOWELL   (United States)

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DOI: 10.1007/1-4020-4244-2_14     Document Type: Chapter

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