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Making Sense of Broken Windows: the Relationship between Perceptions of Disorder, Fear of Crime, Collective Efficacy and Perceptions of Crime
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عنوان ژورنال: SAGE Open
سال: 2015
ISSN: 2158-2440,2158-2440
DOI: 10.1177/2158244014564361