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Original Articles

Keep Your Friends Close and Your Enemies Closer: Prison Visitation, Spatial Distance, and Concentrated Disadvantage of Visitor Neighborhoods, and Offender Recidivism

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Pages 571-589 | Received 16 Mar 2018, Accepted 18 Dec 2018, Published online: 08 Feb 2019

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