Scared straight and other juvenile awareness programs

Preventing Crime: What Works for Children, Offenders, Victims, and Places

Volumn , Issue , 2006, Pages 87-101

  Petrosino, Anthony ^a   Petrosino, Carolyn Turpin ^b   Buehler, John ^c  

^a Research Consultant   (United States)

^b BRIDGEWATER STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^c HARVARD UNIVERSITY   (United States)

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EID: 84892331296     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Book    
DOI: 10.1007/1-4020-4244-2_6     Document Type: Chapter

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