Five tests for a theory of the crime drop

Crime Science

Volumn 2, Issue 1, 2013, Pages

  Farrell, Graham ^a  

^a SIMON FRASER UNIVERSITY   (Canada)

Author keywords

Crime decline; Crime drop; Crime fall

Indexed keywords

EID: 84908572043     PISSN: None     EISSN: 21937680     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1186/2193-7680-2-5     Document Type: Article

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