Regional variation in Europe between homicide and other forms of external death and criminal offences

Handbook of European Homicide Research: Patterns, Explanations, and Country Studies

Volumn , Issue , 2012, Pages 71-94

  Aebi, Marcelo F ^a   Linde, Antonia ^a,b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF LAUSANNE   (Switzerland)

^b UNIVERSITAT OBERTA DE CATALUNYA   (Spain)

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DOI: 10.1007/978-1-4614-0466-8_5     Document Type: Chapter

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