Moving beyond the stereotypes: Women's subjective accounts of their violent crime

Criminology

Volumn 44, Issue 2, 2006, Pages 321-352

  Kruttschnitt, Candace ^a,b   Carbone Lopez, Kristin ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MINNESOTA   (United States)

^b 909 Social Sciences   (United States)

Author keywords

Agency; Gender; Narratives; Violence

Indexed keywords

EID: 33745326526     PISSN: 00111384     EISSN: 17459125     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1745-9125.2006.00051.x     Document Type: Review

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