Drugs, Guns, and Disadvantaged Youths: Co-Occurring Behavior and the Code of the Street

Crime and Delinquency

Volumn 58, Issue 6, 2012, Pages 932-953

  Allen, Andrea N ^a   Lo, Celia C ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF SOUTH CAROLINA   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF ALABAMA   (United States)

Author keywords

co occurring behavior; code based beliefs; drug trafficking; gun carrying; individual level disadvantage factors; urban male youth

Indexed keywords

EID: 84869408713     PISSN: 00111287     EISSN: 1552387X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1177/0011128709359652     Document Type: Article

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