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Cuellar, A.E., Cheema, J. (2014). Health Care Reform and Criminal Offenders (US). In: Bruinsma, G., Weisburd, D. (eds) Encyclopedia of Criminology and Criminal Justice. Springer, New York, NY. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4614-5690-2_685

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