The impact of exposure to violence on a trajectory of (declining) parental monitoring: A partial test of the ecological-transactional model of community violence

Criminal Justice and Behavior

Volumn 35, Issue 11, 2008, Pages 1411-1428

  Spano, Richard ^a,e   Rivera, Craig ^b   Vazsonyi, Alexander T ^c   Bolland, John M ^d  

^a INDIANA UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b NIAGARA UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^c AUBURN UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^d UNIVERSITY OF ALABAMA AT BIRMINGHAM   (United States)

^e INDIANA UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Exposure to violence; Group based modeling; Minority youth; Parental monitoring; Poverty

Indexed keywords

EID: 54749133911     PISSN: 00938548     EISSN: 15523594     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1177/0093854808321735     Document Type: Article

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