Crime as a Social Cost of Poverty and Inequality: A Review Focusing on Developing countries
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Poverty; Crime;JEL classification:
- I31 - Health, Education, and Welfare - - Welfare, Well-Being, and Poverty - - - General Welfare, Well-Being
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