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Rethinking Crime in America
Published online by Cambridge University Press: 20 November 2018
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- Review Symposium: Current Issues in Crime and Criminal Justice
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1 Hagan, John, Modern Criminology: Crime, Criminal Behavior and Its Control ch. 1 (New York: McGraw-Hill, 1985).Google Scholar
2 See Gibbons, Donald, The Criminological Enterprise ch. 2–3 (Englewood Cliffs, N.J.: Prentice-Hall, 1979).Google Scholar
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