Black women's pathways to involvement in illicit drug distribution and sales: An exploratory ethnographic analysis

Drugs and crime deviant pathways

Volumn , Issue , 2017, Pages 167-193

  Maher, Lisa ^a   Dunlap, Eloise ^b   Johnson, Bruce D ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF NEW SOUTH WALES   (Australia)

^b NATIONAL DEVELOPMENT AND RESEARCH INSTITUTES   (United States)

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