Defining, excusing, and justifying deviance: Teen mothers' accounts for statutory rape

Symbolic Interaction

Volumn 22, Issue 1, 1999, Pages 25-44

  Higginson, Joanna Gregson ^a  

^a PACIFIC LUTHERAN UNIVERSITY   (United States)

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EID: 0033239426     PISSN: 01956086     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1525/si.1999.22.1.25     Document Type: Article

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