Policing girlhood?: Relational aggression and violence prevention

Youth Violence and Juvenile Justice

Volumn 5, Issue 3, 2007, Pages 328-345

  Chesney Lind, Meda ^a   Morash, Merry ^b   Irwin, Katherine ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF HAWAII   (United States)

^b MICHIGAN STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Aggression; Girls; Social control

Indexed keywords

EID: 34250685386     PISSN: 15412040     EISSN: 15569330     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1177/1541204007301307     Document Type: Article

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