The Long Arm of Poverty: Extended and Relational Geographies of Child Victimization and Neighborhood Violence Exposures

Justice Quarterly

Volumn 34, Issue 6, 2017, Pages 1096-1125

  Graif, Corina ^a   Matthews, Stephen A ^a  

^a PENNSYLVANIA STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

children and youth; extended geography; moving to opportunity; neighborhood poverty; violent victimization

Indexed keywords

EID: 85010639803     PISSN: 07418825     EISSN: 17459109     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/07418825.2016.1276951     Document Type: Article

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