Intergenerational transmission of violence

Violence and Mental Health: Its Manifold Faces

Volumn , Issue , 2015, Pages 27-46

  Widom, Cathy Spatz ^a   Wilson, Helen W ^a  

^a University of the New York City   (United States)

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DOI: 10.1007/978-94-017-8999-8_2     Document Type: Chapter

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