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Research Article

‘We handle it, I guess you’d say, the East Texas way’: Place-based effects on the police decision-making process and non-arrest outcomes

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Pages 53-71 | Received 27 Jan 2022, Accepted 13 Apr 2022, Published online: 26 Apr 2022

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