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Lawrence E. Cohen, Kenneth C. Land, Age Structure and Crime: Symmetry Versus Asymmetry and the Projection of Crime Rates Through the 1990s, American Sociological Review, Vol. 52, No. 2 (Apr., 1987), pp. 170-183
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