Serious Delinquency and Gang Membership

Adolescent Psychiatry

Volumn 27, Issue , 2003, Pages 61-81

  Thomas, Christopher R ^a   Holzer III, Charles E ^a   Wall, Julie A ^a  

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ADOLESCENT; ARTICLE; CRIME; DEMOGRAPHY; HUMAN; JUVENILE DELINQUENCY; OFFENDER; PROBATION; STATISTICAL ANALYSIS; UNITED STATES; VIOLENCE;

EID: 0242676131     PISSN: 00652008     EISSN: None     Source Type: Book Series    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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