Danger of strong causal reasoning in juvenile justice policy and practice

Australian Social Work

Volumn 56, Issue 4, 2003, Pages 340-351

  Borowski, Allan ^a  

^a LA TROBE UNIVERSITY   (Australia)

Author keywords

Causation; Juvenile crime; Theory building

Indexed keywords

EID: 85050831505     PISSN: 0312407X     EISSN: 14470748     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1447-0748.2003.00096.x     Document Type: Article

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