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From Bad to Worse: How Changing Inequality in Nearby Areas Impacts Local Crime

John R. Hipp, Charis E. Kubrin
RSF: The Russell Sage Foundation Journal of the Social Sciences February 2017, 3 (2) 129-151; DOI: https://doi.org/10.7758/RSF.2017.3.2.06
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aProfessor in the Department of Criminology, Law, and Society and the Department of Sociology at the University of California, Irvine
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bProfessor in the Department of Criminology, Law, and Society and the Department of Sociology at the University of California
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