Weapon carrying by youth: Risk factors and prevention

Education and Urban Society

Volumn 31, Issue 3, 1999, Pages 309-333

  Kingery, Paul M ^a   Coggeshall, Mark B ^a   Alford, Aaron A ^a  

^a Hamilton Fish National Institute on School and Community Violence   (New Zealand)

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EID: 22644452080     PISSN: 00131245     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1177/0013124599031003004     Document Type: Article

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