Communities, students, schools, and school crime: A confirmatory study of crime in U.S. high schools

Urban Education

Volumn 43, Issue 3, 2008, Pages 301-318

  Chen, Greg ^a  

^a CITY UNIVERSITY OF NEW YORK   (United States)

Author keywords

Punitive measures; School climate; School crime; School culture; School structure; Security programs; Structural equation model

Indexed keywords

EID: 42449135419     PISSN: 00420859     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1177/0042085907311791     Document Type: Article

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