African American adolescents living and coping with community violence on Chicago's Southside

Journal of Interpersonal Violence

Volumn 26, Issue 12, 2011, Pages 2483-2498

  Voisin, Dexter R ^a   Bird, Jason D P ^b   Hardestry, Melissa ^a   Shiu Shi, Cheng ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CHICAGO   (United States)

^b HOWARD BROWN HEALTH CENTER   (United States)

Author keywords

adolescents; African American; community violence; coping; gender

Indexed keywords

ADAPTIVE BEHAVIOR; ADOLESCENT; AFRICAN AMERICAN; ARTICLE; CHILD BEHAVIOR; CHILD PSYCHOLOGY; FEMALE; HUMAN; INTERVIEW; MALE; PSYCHOLOGICAL ASPECT; SEX RATIO; SOCIAL ENVIRONMENT; STATISTICS; STUDENT; UNITED STATES; URBAN POPULATION; VIOLENCE;

ADAPTATION, PSYCHOLOGICAL; ADOLESCENT; ADOLESCENT BEHAVIOR; ADOLESCENT PSYCHOLOGY; AFRICAN AMERICANS; CHICAGO; FEMALE; HUMANS; INTERVIEWS AS TOPIC; MALE; SEX DISTRIBUTION; SOCIAL ENVIRONMENT; STUDENTS; URBAN POPULATION; VIOLENCE;

EID: 79959693849     PISSN: 08862605     EISSN: 15526518     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1177/0886260510383029     Document Type: Article

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