A multisite examination of youth gang membership: Does gender matter?

Criminology

Volumn 36, Issue 4, 1998, Pages 799-828

  Esbensen, Finn Aage ^a   Deschenes, Elizabeth Piper ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF NEBRASKA AT OMAHA   (United States)

^b CALIFORNIA STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

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EID: 0040676526     PISSN: 00111384     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1745-9125.1998.tb01266.x     Document Type: Article

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