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A Skeptical But Sympathetic Appraisal of the Prospects for Nurturant Crime-Control Policies

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  17 May 2016

Steven D. Levitt
Steven D. Levitt*
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Harvard Society of Fellows, USA
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Politics and the Life Sciences , Volume 16 , Issue 1 , March 1997 , pp. 34 - 36
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