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Joel A. Devine, Joseph F. Sheley, M. Dwayne Smith, Macroeconomic and Social-Control Policy Influences on Crime Rate Changes, 1948-1985, American Sociological Review, Vol. 53, No. 3 (Jun., 1988), pp. 407-420
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