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“We find strong evidence that establishment of community nonprofits had a substantively meaningful negative effect on murder, violent crime, and property crime.” & “Reconsidering the set of actors and organizations that have the greatest potential to control violent crime."
Community and the Crime Decline: The Causal Effect of Local Nonprofits on Violent Crime
American Sociological Review
Vol. 82 Issue 6, pp. 1214–1240,
2017
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