Beyond dichotomy: Towards an explanation of young women's involvement in violent street gangs

Youth in Crisis?: 'Gangs', Territoriality and Violence

Volumn , Issue , 2011, Pages 110-127

  Batchelor, Susan A ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF GLASGOW   (United Kingdom)

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