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How Living in the ‘Hood Affects Risky Behaviors Among Latino and African American Youth
Anna Maria Santiago, Eun Lye Lee, Jessica L. Lucero, Rebecca Wiersma
RSF: The Russell Sage Foundation Journal of the Social Sciences February 2017, 3 (2) 170-209; DOI: https://doi.org/10.7758/RSF.2017.3.2.08
Anna Maria Santiago
aProfessor at the School of Social Work at Michigan State University
Eun Lye Lee
bPostdoctoral scholar at the Prevention Research Center for Healthy Neighborhoods at Case Western Reserve University
Jessica L. Lucero
cAssistant professor in the Department of Sociology, Social Work, and Anthropology at Utah State University
Rebecca Wiersma
dOakland MSW Field Coordinator at the School of Social Work at Michigan State University

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