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Item Length: 9in
Item Height: 0.6in
Item Width: 6in
Author: Robert Agnew
Publication Name: Toward a Unified Criminology : Integrating Assumptions about Crime, People and Society
Format: Trade Paperback
Language: English
Publisher: New York University Press
Publication Year: 2011
Series: New Perspectives in Crime, Deviance, and Law Ser.
Type: Textbook
Item Weight: 13.6 Oz
Number of Pages: 272 Pages