Exploring the measuremendt quality of an attitudinal scale of street code-related violence: Similarities and differences across groups and contexts

Youth Violence and Juvenile Justice

Volumn 8, Issue 3, 2010, Pages 187-212

  Taylor, Terrance J ^a   Esbensen, Finn Aage ^a   Brick, Bradley T ^b   Freng, Adrienne ^c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MISSOURI ST LOUIS   (United States)

^b OLD DOMINION UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF WYOMING   (United States)

Author keywords

code of the streets; measurement; race ethnicity

Indexed keywords

EID: 77955576411     PISSN: 15412040     EISSN: 15569330     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1177/1541204010361297     Document Type: Article

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