Mandated community service in high school and subsequent civic engagement: The case of the "double cohort" in Ontario, Canada

Journal of Youth and Adolescence

Volumn 36, Issue 7, 2007, Pages 849-860

  Henderson, Ailsa ^a   Brown, Steven D ^b   Pancer, S Mark ^b   Ellis Hale, Kimberly ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TORONTO   (Canada)

^b WILFRID LAURIER UNIVERSITY   (Canada)

Author keywords

Civic engagement; Mandatory volunteering

Indexed keywords

EID: 34548789708     PISSN: 00472891     EISSN: 15736601     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s10964-007-9207-1     Document Type: Article

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