Young female offenders: Increasingly visible yet poorly understood

Gender Issues

Volumn 19, Issue 1, 2001, Pages 79-90

  Sondheimer, Diane L ^a  

^a AMERICAN UNIVERSITY   (United States)

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EID: 11244287997     PISSN: 1098092X     EISSN: 19364717     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s12147-001-0005-x     Document Type: Article

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