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Mainstreaming domestic and gender-based violence into sociology and the criminology of violence

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Mainstreaming domestic and gender-based violence into sociology and the criminology of violence. / Walby, Sylvia; Towers, Jude; Francis, Brian.
In: The Sociological Review, Vol. 62, No. S2, 18.12.2014, p. 187–214.

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Walby S, Towers J, Francis B. Mainstreaming domestic and gender-based violence into sociology and the criminology of violence. The Sociological Review. 2014 Dec 18;62(S2):187–214. doi: 10.1111/1467-954X.12198

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