Backlash and whiplash: A critique of statistics Canada's 1999 general social survey on victimization

Online Journal of Justice Studies

Volumn 1, Issue 1, 2003, Pages

  DeKeseredy, Walter S ^a   Schwartz, Martin D ^a  

^a OHIO UNIVERSITY   (United States)

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