Frequency and Correlates of Fighting and Carrying Weapons among Public School Adolescents

American Journal of Health Behavior

Volumn 22, Issue 1, 1998, Pages 8-17

  Valois, Robert F ^a,b   McKewon, Robert E ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF SOUTH CAROLINA SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF SOUTH CAROLINA   (United States)

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