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    Rights statement: This is a post-peer-review, pre-copyedit version of an article published in Crime Prevention and Community Safety. The definitive publisher-authenticated version Fear of crime on the rail networks: Perceptions of the UK public and British Transport Police Nicola Power, Michelle A McManus, Rosa Lynch and James Bonworth Crime Prev Community Saf 18: 91-104; doi:10.1057/cpcs.2016.2 is available online at: http://www.palgrave-journals.com/cpcs/journal/v18/n2/abs/cpcs20162a.html

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Fear of crime on the rail networks: perceptions of the UK public and British Transport Police

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Fear of crime on the rail networks: perceptions of the UK public and British Transport Police. / Power, Nicola; McManus, Michelle; Lynch, Rosa et al.
In: Crime Prevention and Community Safety, Vol. 18, No. 2, 05.2016, p. 91-104.

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Power, N, McManus, M, Lynch, R & Bonworth, J 2016, 'Fear of crime on the rail networks: perceptions of the UK public and British Transport Police', Crime Prevention and Community Safety, vol. 18, no. 2, pp. 91-104. https://doi.org/10.1057/cpcs.2016.2

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Power, N., McManus, M., Lynch, R., & Bonworth, J. (2016). Fear of crime on the rail networks: perceptions of the UK public and British Transport Police. Crime Prevention and Community Safety, 18(2), 91-104. https://doi.org/10.1057/cpcs.2016.2

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Power N, McManus M, Lynch R, Bonworth J. Fear of crime on the rail networks: perceptions of the UK public and British Transport Police. Crime Prevention and Community Safety. 2016 May;18(2):91-104. doi: 10.1057/cpcs.2016.2

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Power, Nicola ; McManus, Michelle ; Lynch, Rosa et al. / Fear of crime on the rail networks : perceptions of the UK public and British Transport Police. In: Crime Prevention and Community Safety. 2016 ; Vol. 18, No. 2. pp. 91-104.

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