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Telephones as facilitators of drug dealing

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Authors and Affiliations

  1. the National Development and Research Institutes Inc., USA

    Mangai Natarajan (Principal Investigator)

  2. John Jay College of Criminal Justice, City University of New York, USA

    Mangai Natarajan (Principal Investigator)

  3. the School of Criminal Justice, Rutgers, the State University of New Jersey, USA

    Ronald V. Clarke Ph.D. (Dean and Professor)

  4. the National Development and Research Institutes Inc., New York, USA

    Bruce D. Johnson Ph.D. (Director of the Institute for Special Populations Research)

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This research was primarily supported by two National Institute on Drug Abuse grants (1K21DA0024201, and 1R01DA05126-06). Viewpoints in this paper do not necessarily represent the official positions of the U.S. Government, National Institute on Drug Abuse, National Development and Research Institutes Inc., John Jay College of Criminal Justice and Rutgers University. The authors would like to thank Gisela Bichler of the School of Criminal Justice, Rutgers, and Bonnie Rodriguiz of NDRI for their assistance.

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Natarajan, M., Clarke, R.V. & Johnson, B.D. Telephones as facilitators of drug dealing. Eur J Crim Policy Res 3, 137–153 (1995). https://doi.org/10.1007/BF02242934

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