The link between child maltreatment and adolescent offending Systems neglect of adolescents

Family Matters

Volumn , Issue 89, 2011, Pages 31-41

  Cashmore, Judy ^a,b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF SYDNEY   (Australia)

^b SOUTHERN CROSS UNIVERSITY   (Australia)

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