Gendered Justice: Attributional Differences Between Males and Females in the Juvenile Courts

feminist criminology

Volumn 2, Issue 1, 2007, Pages 4-30

  Mallicoat, Stacy L ^a  

^a CALIFORNIA STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

attribution theory; delinquency; gender; processing

Indexed keywords

EID: 35448983353     PISSN: 15570851     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1177/1557085106296349     Document Type: Article

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