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Gender Equality and Violent Behavior: How Neighborhood Gender Equality Influences the Gender Gap in Violence

Using a sample of 703 African American adolescents from the Family and Community Health Study (FACHS) along with census data from the year 2000, we examine the association between neighborhood-level gender equality and violence. We find that boys’ and girls’ violent behavior is unevenly distributed...

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Main Authors: Lei, Man-Kit, Simons, Ronald L., Simons, Leslie Gordon, Edmond, Mary Bond
Format: Artigo
Language:Inglês
Published: 2014
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Online Access:https://ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3970116/
https://ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/24672996
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