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  1. A drop of 84.4 %, contributing to a drop in the seven serious crime categories of 80 %: NYPD Compstat, volume 23(7) http://www.nyc.gov/html/nypd/downloads/pdf/crime_statistics/cs-en-us-city.pdf (accessed 2 March 2016).

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Lisa Maher is supported by an Australian National Health and Medical Research Council (NHMRC) Senior Research Fellowship.

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Maher, L., Dixon, D. Cheaper drugs as crime control? Rethinking the drugs/crime nexus. Dialect Anthropol 40, 343–348 (2016). https://doi.org/10.1007/s10624-016-9419-4

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