Labor markets and crime risk factors

Evidence-Based Crime Prevention

Volumn , Issue , 2003, Pages 198-240

  Bushway, Shawn D ^a   Reuter, Peter ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MARYLAND   (United States)

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EID: 85136904855     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Book    
DOI: 10.4324/9780203166697-6     Document Type: Chapter

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