Sweet mothers and gangbangers: Managing crime in a black middle-class neighborhood

Social Forces

Volumn 76, Issue 3, 1998, Pages 747-774

  Pattillo, Mary E ^a  

^a Poverty Research and Training Center   (United States)

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EID: 0032373237     PISSN: 00377732     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1093/sf/76.3.747     Document Type: Article

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