Youth at Risk [electronic resource] : Understanding Runaway and Exploited Youth / Ann Wolbert Burgess.

This document describes a study of runaways (N=149) at a Toronto, Canada shelter which examined why urban adolescents run away from home; the role of sexual abuse in the life histories of runaways; and why runaways return home. The report begins with a discussion about adolescents at risk, with a de...

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Online Access:	Full Text (via ERIC)
Main Author:	Burgess, Ann Wolbert
Corporate Author:	National Center for Missing & Exploited Children (U.S.)
Format:	Electronic eBook
Language:	English
Published:	[S.l.] : Distributed by ERIC Clearinghouse, 1986.
Subjects:	Adolescents. Family Problems. High Risk Persons. Intervention. Missing Children. Prevention. Runaways. Youth Problems.