Conferring sameness: Institutional management of juvenile sex offenders

Journal of Contemporary Ethnography

Volumn 36, Issue 1, 2007, Pages 31-49

  Steen, Sara ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF COLORADO   (United States)

Author keywords

Institutions; Juvenile justice; Medicalization; Offender classification; Sex offending

Indexed keywords

EID: 33846091959     PISSN: 08912416     EISSN: 15525414     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1177/0891241606287001     Document Type: Article

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