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Testing gender-differentiated models of the mechanisms linking polyvictimization and youth offending: Numbing and callousness versus dissociation and borderline traits

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Pages 347-361 | Received 12 Apr 2017, Accepted 08 Nov 2017, Published online: 16 Mar 2018

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