Coping with macro-structural adversity: Chronic poverty, female youth gangs, and cultural resilience in a US African-American urban community

Journal of Contingencies and Crisis Management

Volumn 17, Issue 4, 2009, Pages 274-284

  Fleisher, Mark ^a  

^a KENT STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

COPING STRATEGY; EMPIRICAL ANALYSIS; POVERTY; SOCIAL NETWORK; SOCIOECONOMIC STATUS; URBAN SOCIETY; YOUNG POPULATION;

CHAMPAIGN COUNTY [ILLINOIS]; ILLINOIS; NORTH AMERICA; UNITED STATES;

EID: 70849115307     PISSN: 09660879     EISSN: 14685973     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1468-5973.2009.00589.x     Document Type: Article

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