An empirical portrait of community reentry among serious juvenile offenders in two metropolitan cities

Criminal Justice and Behavior

Volumn 34, Issue 11, 2007, Pages 1402-1426

  Chung, He Len ^a,b   Schubert, Carol A ^a   Mulvey, Edward P ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF PITTSBURGH SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

^b The College of New Jersey   (United States)

Author keywords

Aftercare; Community reintegration; Juvenile offenders; Reentry

Indexed keywords

EID: 35448972520     PISSN: 00938548     EISSN: 15523594     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1177/0093854807307170     Document Type: Article

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