Victimization of Juveniles in Out-of-Home Placement: Juvenile Correctional Facilities

British Journal of Social Work

Volumn 37, Issue 6, 2007, Pages 1007-1025

  Davidson Arad, Bilha ^a   Golan, Miriam ^a  

^a TEL AVIV UNIVERSITY   (Israel)

Author keywords

Correctional facilities; Juvenile offenders; Peer violence; Prisons; Staff abuse; Victimization

Indexed keywords

EID: 51249154821     PISSN: 00453102     EISSN: 1468263X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1093/bjsw/bcl056     Document Type: Article

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