'Children from good homes': Moral panics about middle-class delinquency

British Journal of Criminology

Volumn 44, Issue 3, 2004, Pages 391-400

  Cromer, Gerald ^a  

^a BAR ILAN UNIVERSITY   (Israel)

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EID: 4043125331     PISSN: 00070955     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1093/bjc/azh021     Document Type: Article

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