There are proven ways to significantly reduce violent crime within the next five years. It requires becoming not “tough on crime,” but “smart on crime” before it happens.
Khalid Tinasti, Graduate Institute – Institut de hautes études internationales et du développement (IHEID) and Yong-an Zhang, Shanghai University
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