Fighting for Her Honor: Girls' Violence in Distressed Communities

Feminist Criminology

Volumn 7, Issue 4, 2012, Pages 350-380

  Irwin, Katherine ^a   Adler, Corey ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF HAWAII   (United States)

Author keywords

community distress; ethnographic research; female violence; gender; multiple inequalities

Indexed keywords

EID: 84865736251     PISSN: 15570851     EISSN: 1557086X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1177/1557085112436837     Document Type: Article

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