Risk, prevention and early intervention: Youth justice responses to girls

Safer Communities

Volumn 11, Issue 2, 2012, Pages 111-120

  Creaney, Sean ^a  

^a Stockport College   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Early intervention; Girls; Prevention; Risk management; Youth justice

Indexed keywords

EID: 84859570411     PISSN: 17578043     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1108/17578041211215348     Document Type: Review

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