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“The nuisance property ordinance … forc[es] abused women to choose between calling the police on their abusers (only to risk eviction) or staying in their apartments (only to risk more abuse). Women from black neighborhoods disproportionately face this devil’s bargain."

Unpolicing the Urban Poor

American Sociological Review

Desmond, Matthew / Valdez, Nicol

Vol. 78 Issue 1, pp. 117–141, 2013

10.1177/0003122412470829

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