Stability and change in girls' delinquency and the gender gap: Trends in violence and alcohol offending across multiple sources of evidence

Delinquent Girls: Contexts, Relationships, and Adaptation

Volumn 9781461404156, Issue , 2012, Pages 3-23

  Schwartz, Jennifer ^a   Steffensmeier, Darrell ^b  

^a WASHINGTON STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b PENNSYLVANIA STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

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EID: 84861416939     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Book    
DOI: 10.1007/978-1-4614-0415-6_1     Document Type: Chapter

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