Violent girls or relabeled status offenders?: An alternative interpretation of the data

Crime and Delinquency

Volumn 55, Issue 2, 2009, Pages 241-265

  Feld, Barry C ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MINNESOTA   (United States)

Author keywords

Girls' violence; Labeling; Social construction of violence

Indexed keywords

EID: 62349121902     PISSN: 00111287     EISSN: 1552387X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1177/0011128708330629     Document Type: Article

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