Examining the Moderating Role of Family Cohesion on the Relationship Between Witnessed Community Violence and Delinquency in a National Sample of Adolescents

Journal of Interpersonal Violence

Volumn 27, Issue 2, 2012, Pages 239-262

  Barr, Simone C ^a   Hanson, Rochelle ^a   Begle, Angela M ^a   Kilpatrick, Dean G ^a   Saunders, Benjamin ^a   Resnick, Heidi ^a   Amstadter, Ananda ^b  

^a MEDICAL UNIVERSITY OF SOUTH CAROLINA   (United States)

^b VIRGINIA COMMONWEALTH UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

child abuse; community violence; family issues and mediators; violence exposure

Indexed keywords

ADOLESCENT; ARTICLE; CHILD; CHILD BEHAVIOR; DEMOGRAPHY; ETHNOLOGY; FAMILY; FAMILY RELATION; FEMALE; HUMAN; INTERVIEW; JUVENILE DELINQUENCY; MALE; PSYCHOLOGICAL ASPECT; STATISTICAL MODEL; STATISTICS; UNITED STATES; VIOLENCE;

ADOLESCENT; ADOLESCENT BEHAVIOR; CHILD; FAMILY; FAMILY RELATIONS; FEMALE; HUMANS; INTERVIEWS AS TOPIC; JUVENILE DELINQUENCY; LOGISTIC MODELS; MALE; RESIDENCE CHARACTERISTICS; UNITED STATES; VIOLENCE;

EID: 84857567489     PISSN: 08862605     EISSN: 15526518     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1177/0886260511416477     Document Type: Article

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