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Human ecology, crime, and crime control: Linking individual behavior and aggregate crime

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  • Please address correspondence to Prof. Joanne Savage, Department of Justice, Law and Society, American University, 4400 Massachusetts Avenue NW, Washington, DC 20016–8043, [email protected].
  • The views expressed here are those of the authors and do not necessarily reflect the policies or positions of the National Institute of Justice or the U.S. Department of Justice.

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