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The Great Decoupling: The Disconnection Between Criminal Offending and Experience of Arrest Across Two Cohorts

Vesla M. Weaver, Andrew Papachristos, Michael Zanger-Tishler
RSF: The Russell Sage Foundation Journal of the Social Sciences February 2019, 5 (1) 89-123; DOI: https://doi.org/10.7758/RSF.2019.5.1.05
Vesla M. Weaver
aBloomberg Distinguished Associate Professor of Political Science and Sociology at Johns Hopkins University, 338 Mergenthaler Hall, 3400 N. Charles St., Baltimore, MD 22181
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Andrew Papachristos
bProfessor of sociology and a faculty fellow at the Institute for Policy Research, Northwestern University
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cRecent graduate of Yale University
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The Great Decoupling: The Disconnection Between Criminal Offending and Experience of Arrest Across Two Cohorts
Vesla M. Weaver, Andrew Papachristos, Michael Zanger-Tishler
RSF: The Russell Sage Foundation Journal of the Social Sciences Feb 2019, 5 (1) 89-123; DOI: 10.7758/RSF.2019.5.1.05

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The Great Decoupling: The Disconnection Between Criminal Offending and Experience of Arrest Across Two Cohorts
Vesla M. Weaver, Andrew Papachristos, Michael Zanger-Tishler
RSF: The Russell Sage Foundation Journal of the Social Sciences Feb 2019, 5 (1) 89-123; DOI: 10.7758/RSF.2019.5.1.05
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