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Part V - Very Visible Differences

Orientation, Disability, Freaks, and Clowns and Their Relationship to Crime and Victimization

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  22 March 2019

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Appearance Bias and Crime , pp. 225 - 268
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Print publication year: 2019

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