Girls' violence: Criminality or resilience?

The Social Ecology of Resilience: A Handbook of Theory and Practice

Volumn , Issue , 2012, Pages 157-169

  Hine, Jean ^a   Welford, Joanna ^a  

^a DE MONTFORT UNIVERSITY   (United Kingdom)

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DOI: 10.1007/978-1-4614-0586-3_14     Document Type: Chapter

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