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Homicide as Infectious Disease: Using Public Health Methods to Investigate the Diffusion of Homicide

April M. ZeoliView further author information
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Jesenia M. PizarroCorrespondence[email protected]
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Pages 609-632 | Published online: 12 Oct 2012

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