Making Men Out of Boys? Ethnic Differences in Juvenile Violent Offending and the Role of Gender Role Orientations

Journal of Cross-Cultural Psychology

Volumn 44, Issue 8, 2013, Pages 1321-1338

  Lahlah, Esmah ^a   Van der Knaap, Leontien M ^a   Bogaerts, Stefan ^a   Lens, Kim M E ^a  

^a TILBURG UNIVERSITY   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

culture of honor; ethnicity; gender role orientations; violent offending

Indexed keywords

EID: 84884541745     PISSN: 00220221     EISSN: 15525422     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1177/0022022113480041     Document Type: Article

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