Crime victimization: Assessing differences between violent and nonviolent experiences

Victims and Offenders

Volumn 2, Issue 1, 2007, Pages 63-76

  Green, Diane L ^a   Pomeroy, Elizabeth ^b  

^a FLORIDA ATLANTIC UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF TEXAS AT AUSTIN   (United States)

Author keywords

Coping; Crime victims; Distress; Well being

Indexed keywords

EID: 34347330181     PISSN: 15564886     EISSN: 15564991     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/15564880600922117     Document Type: Article

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