Legal factors, extra-legal factors, or changes in the law? Using criminal justice research to understand the resolution of sexual harassment complaints

Social Problems

Volumn 49, Issue 4, 2002, Pages 605-623

  Welsh, Sandy ^a   Dawson, Myrna ^b   Nierobisz, Annette ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TORONTO   (Canada)

^b NONE

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EID: 0036876490     PISSN: 00377791     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1525/sp.2002.49.4.605     Document Type: Review

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