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Studying the System of Monetary Sanctions

Alexes Harris, Mary Pattillo, Bryan L. Sykes
RSF: The Russell Sage Foundation Journal of the Social Sciences January 2022, 8 (1) 1-33; DOI: https://doi.org/10.7758/RSF.2022.8.1.01

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