Respect, friendship, and racial injustice: Justifying gang membership in a Canadian city

Street Gangs, Migration and Ethnicity

Volumn , Issue , 2013, Pages 192-208

  Wortley, Scot ^a   Tanner, Julian ^a  

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EID: 84925705683     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Book    
DOI: 10.4324/9781843925453     Document Type: Chapter

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