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Teenage Motherhood: The frequency of teenage motherhood in Italian provinces : Economic, cultural and institutional factors

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  07 May 2025

Uberto Gatti ,
Richard E. Tremblay  and
Hans M.H. Schadee
Uberto Gatti*
Affiliation:
University of Genoa, Italy
Richard E. Tremblay
Affiliation:
University of Montreal, Canada
Hans M.H. Schadee
Affiliation:
University of Milano-Bicocca, Italy
*
Corresponding author: Uberto Gatti, DIMEL, University of Genoa, Via De Toni 12, 16132, Genoa (Italy), email ugatti@unige.it, tel. +39 010 3537892, fax +39 010 3537578.
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International Annals of Criminology , Volume 47 , Issue 1-2 , 2009 , pp. 65 - 80
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