The Queer Delinquent: Impacts of risk and protective factors on sexual minority juvenile offending in the U.S.

Handbook of LGBT Communities, Crime, and Justice

Volumn , Issue , 2014, Pages 449-472

  Conover Williams, Meredith ^a  

^a HUMBOLDT STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Abuse; Alcohol; Drug use; Drugs; Education; Family; Gender; Graffiti; Juvenile delinquency Delinquency Sex work; Kicked out; Life course; Mentors; Parent child relationships; Protective factors; Race; Religion; Risk factors; Running away; School; Sexual assault; Violence; Work

Indexed keywords

EID: 85000569931     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Book    
DOI: 10.1007/978-1-4614-9188-0_21     Document Type: Chapter

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