Decommodification and Homicide Rates in the 20th-Century United States

Homicide Studies

Volumn 6, Issue 1, 2002, Pages 6-38

  Batton, Candice ^a   Jensen, Gary ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF NEBRASKA AT OMAHA   (United States)

^b VANDERBILT UNIVERSITY   (United States)

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EID: 84992884152     PISSN: 10887679     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1177/1088767902006001002     Document Type: Article

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