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The author of The Irish and Irish Politicians,he has focused his recent work on middle-class adolescents and youth, emphasizing such mental health issues as drug use and delinquency from the perspective of psychiatric sociology. He is the special editor for this supplement on the family.
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Levine, E.M. Middle-class family decline. Society 18, 72–78 (1981). https://doi.org/10.1007/BF02694673
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