Risk and protective factors in youth violence and aggression: Promising family-based prevention models

Youth Violence and Juvenile Justice: Causes, Intervention and Treatment Programs

Volumn , Issue , 2010, Pages 65-91

  Barczyk, Amanda N ^a   Montgomery, Katherine ^a   Thompson, Sanna J ^a   Matai, Sharon ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TEXAS AT AUSTIN   (United States)

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