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Research ArticleIII. The Commonplace of Violence and Death
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Lifetimes of Violence in a Sample of Released Prisoners

Bruce Western
RSF: The Russell Sage Foundation Journal of the Social Sciences November 2015, 1 (2) 14-30; DOI: https://doi.org/10.7758/RSF.2015.1.2.02
Bruce Western
aDaniel and Florence Guggenheim Professor of Criminal Justice Policy and director of the Malcolm Wiener Center for Social Policy at the John F. Kennedy School of Government, Harvard University
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