Crime Control through the Private Use of Armed Force
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- 1 February 1988
- journal article
- Published by Oxford University Press (OUP) in Social Problems
- Vol. 35 (1) , 1-21
Abstract
Legal defensive violence by private citizens armed with firearms is a significant form of social control in the United States. Evidence indicates thaKeywords
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