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Weisburd, D., Petrosino, A., Fronius, T. (2014). Randomized Experiments in Criminology and Criminal Justice. In: Bruinsma, G., Weisburd, D. (eds) Encyclopedia of Criminology and Criminal Justice. Springer, New York, NY. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4614-5690-2_49
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