Co-offending networks in cannabis cultivation

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

Volumn , Issue , 2011, Pages 127-143

  Malm, Aili ^a   Nash, Rebecca ^b   Vickovic, Samuel ^b  

^a CALIFORNIA STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b NONE

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