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Police Contact and the Legal Socialization of Urban Teens

Amanda Geller, Jeffrey Fagan
RSF: The Russell Sage Foundation Journal of the Social Sciences February 2019, 5 (1) 26-49; DOI: https://doi.org/10.7758/RSF.2019.5.1.02
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aClinical associate professor of sociology at New York University
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bIsidor and Seville Sulzbacher Professor of Law and professor of epidemiology at Columbia University
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vol. 5 no. 1 26-49
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https://doi.org/10.7758/RSF.2019.5.1.02

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2377-8253
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  • Published online February 1, 2019.

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© 2019 Russell Sage Foundation. Geller, Amanda, and Jeffrey Fagan. 2019. “Police Contact and the Legal Socialization of Urban Teens.” RSF: The Russell Sage Foundation Journal of the Social Sciences 5(1): 26–49. DOI: 10.7758/RSF.2019.5.1.02. The Fragile Families and Child Wellbeing Study was funded by the Eunice Kennedy Shriver National Institute of Child Health and Human Development (NICHD) of the National Institutes of Health under award number R01HD36916, R01HD39135, and R01HD40421, as well as a consortium of private foundations. The content is solely the responsibility of the authors and does not necessarily represent the official views of the National Institutes of Health. The authors are grateful for feedback from participants at the Russell Sage Foundation authors’ conference and from anonymous reviewers. Direct correspondence to: Amanda Geller at amanda.geller@nyu.edu, Department of Sociology, New York University, 295 Lafayette St., New York, NY 10012. Open Access Policy: RSF: The Russell Sage Foundation Journal of the Social Sciences is an open access journal. This article is published under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivs 3.0 Unported License.

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  1. Amanda Gellera and
  2. Jeffrey Faganb
  1. aClinical associate professor of sociology at New York University
  2. bIsidor and Seville Sulzbacher Professor of Law and professor of epidemiology at Columbia University
  1. Correspondence author:
    Amanda Geller, (amanda.geller{at}nyu.edu)
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