Weapons at school: Are the predictors generalizable across context?

Sociological Spectrum

Volumn 20, Issue 3, 2000, Pages 291-324

  Rountree, Pamela Wilcox ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF KENTUCKY   (United States)

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EID: 0034397405     PISSN: 02732173     EISSN: 15210707     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/027321700405063     Document Type: Article

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