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Llewellyn Hinkes-Jones

Crime

How the Plummeting Price of Cocaine Fueled the Nationwide Drop in Violent Crime

A statistics-based argument that drug pricing, not drug use or law enformencement, is the only way to predict swings in violent crime rates.

Llewellyn Hinkes-Jones The Atlantic Nov 2011 10min Permalink