Explaining the crime drop: contributions to declining crime rates from youth cohorts since 2005
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عنوان ژورنال: Crime, Law and Social Change
سال: 2019
ISSN: 0925-4994,1573-0751
DOI: 10.1007/s10611-019-09846-5