Girls’ Crime and Woman’s Place: Toward a Feminist Model of Female Delinquency

Crime & Delinquency

Volumn 35, Issue 1, 1989, Pages 5-29

  Chesney Lind, Meda ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF HAWAII   (United States)

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EID: 84965584643     PISSN: 00111287     EISSN: 1552387x     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1177/0011128789035001002     Document Type: Article

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