Girlfriends, gun-holders, and ghetto-rats? Moving beyond narrow views of girls in gangs

Delinquent Girls: Contexts, Relationships, and Adaptation

Volumn 9781461404156, Issue , 2012, Pages 71-84

  Peterson, Dana ^a  

^a STATE UNIVERSITY OF NEW YORK   (United States)

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DOI: 10.1007/978-1-4614-0415-6_5     Document Type: Chapter

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