Conceptualizing young people's strategies of resistance to offending as 'active resilience'

British Journal of Social Work

Volumn 40, Issue 1, 2010, Pages 115-132

  Murray, Cathy ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF SOUTHAMPTON   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Active resilience; Non offenders; Strategies of resistance; Young resisters

Indexed keywords

EID: 73649085820     PISSN: 00453102     EISSN: 1468263X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1093/bjsw/bcn115     Document Type: Article

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