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Why should I start by looking at truancy? After all, the great majority of kids spend the great majority of their time at school safely in their classrooms. They mostly do go to school, even if they don’t behave. Yet there are at least two reasons for looking at truancy as a separate category of behaviour.
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Corrigan, P. (1979). Why do kids play truant?. In: Schooling the Smash Street Kids. Crisis Points. Palgrave, London. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-349-16107-2_3
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