Too cool for school? Violence, peer status and high school dropout

Social Forces

Volumn 87, Issue 1, 2008, Pages 445-472

  Staff, Jeremy ^a   Kreager, Derek A ^a  

^a PENNSYLVANIA STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

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EID: 57049131595     PISSN: 00377732     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1353/sof.0.0068     Document Type: Article

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