The social construction of deviant behavior in homeless and runaway youth: Implications for practice

Child and Adolescent Social Work Journal

Volumn 25, Issue 5, 2008, Pages 425-441

  Miles, Bart W ^a   Okamoto, Scott K ^b  

^a WAYNE STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b HAWAII PACIFIC UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Deviance; Homeless youth; Qualitative research; Social construction

Indexed keywords

EID: 51549101799     PISSN: 07380151     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s10560-008-0131-3     Document Type: Article

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