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Guszkowski, K.N., Van Hasselt, V.B. (2017). Crisis (Hostage) Negotiations. In: Van Hasselt, V., Bourke, M. (eds) Handbook of Behavioral Criminology. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-61625-4_34

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