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Do governments lead or lag in fighting crime?

Paresh Kumar Narayan Department of Accounting, Finance and Economics, Griffith Business School, Griffith University, Gold Coast Campus, PMB 50 Gold Coast MC, Queensland 9726, AustraliaCorrespondence[email protected]
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Russell Smyth Department of Economics, Monash University, Australia
Pages 11-15 | Published online: 01 Sep 2006

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