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A Comparative Analysis of Crime Guns
Megan E. Collins, Susan T. Parker, Thomas L. Scott, Charles F. Wellford
RSF: The Russell Sage Foundation Journal of the Social Sciences October 2017, 3 (5) 96-127; DOI: https://doi.org/10.7758/RSF.2017.3.5.05
Megan E. Collins
aAssociate with the Crime & Justice Institute at Community Resources for Justice
Susan T. Parker
bSenior data scientist at CivicScape
Thomas L. Scott
cPhD student in the Department of Criminology and Criminal Justice at the University of Maryland
Charles F. Wellford
dProfessor emeritus in the Department of Criminology and Criminal Justice at the University of Maryland

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A Comparative Analysis of Crime Guns
Megan E. Collins, Susan T. Parker, Thomas L. Scott, Charles F. Wellford
RSF: The Russell Sage Foundation Journal of the Social Sciences Oct 2017, 3 (5) 96-127; DOI: 10.7758/RSF.2017.3.5.05
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