Gender, adolescent lifestyles, and violent victimization: Implications for routine activity theory

Victims and Offenders

Volumn 5, Issue 4, 2010, Pages 303-328

  Henson, Billy ^a   Wilcox, Pamela ^a   Reyns, Bradford W ^b   Cullen, Francis T ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CINCINNATI   (United States)

^b SOUTHERN UTAH UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Adolescent victimization; Gender; Lifestyles; Routine activity theory

Indexed keywords

EID: 77956949585     PISSN: 15564886     EISSN: 15564991     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/15564886.2010.509651     Document Type: Article

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