Female-Female non-partner assault: A political-economic theory of street codes and female-gendered culture in the contemporary African-American Inner City

Critical Sociology

Volumn 34, Issue 2, 2008, Pages 271-290

  Wallace, Don ^a,d   Hirschinger Blank, Nancy ^b   Grisso, Jeane A ^c  

^a DREXEL UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b WIDENER UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^c ROBERT WOOD JOHNSON FOUNDATION   (United States)

^d NONE   (United States)

Author keywords

African American; Female female; Ghetto; Internal colony; Interpersonal violence

Indexed keywords

EID: 38649136581     PISSN: 08969205     EISSN: 15691632     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1177/0896920507085521     Document Type: Article

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