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Reducing Access to Guns by Violent Offenders

Philip J. Cook, Harold A. Pollack
RSF: The Russell Sage Foundation Journal of the Social Sciences October 2017, 3 (5) 2-36; DOI: https://doi.org/10.7758/RSF.2017.3.5.01
Philip J. Cook
aITT/Terry Sanford Professor of Public Policy and professor of economics and sociology at the Sanford School of Public Policy, Duke University
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Harold A. Pollack
bHelen Ross Professor at the School of Social Services Administration, University of Chicago
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