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The State as Killer

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  20 November 2018

John P. Conrad
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American Bar Foundation Research Journal , Volume 8 , Issue 2 , Spring 1983 , pp. 451 - 464
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Copyright © American Bar Foundation, 1983 

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