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public opinion and crime prevention in the United States  

Definición

  • Public opinion is defined as a set of preferences expressed by a sizable number of people toward an issue, policy, or practice of general importance to that group. The group may be as broad and large as the entire citizenry of the United States, or it may be more constrained such as the residents of a single neighborhood. [Source: Encyclopedia of Victimology and Crime Prevention; Public Opinion and Crime Prevention, United States]

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http://data.loterre.fr/ark:/67375/N9J-KNLQ9G2L-6

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