How many of the offspring born to teenage fathers are produced by repeat serious delinquents?

Criminal Behaviour and Mental Health

Volumn 12, Issue 1, 2002, Pages 83-98

  Wei, Evelyn H ^a,b   Loeber, Rolf ^a   Stouthamer Loeber, Magda ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF PITTSBURGH SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF PITTSBURGH   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADOLESCENCE; ADOLESCENT; ADULT; ARTICLE; COMPARATIVE STUDY; DELINQUENCY; FAMILY PLANNING; FATHER; HEALTH SERVICE; HUMAN; JUVENILE; MALE; ONSET AGE; PARENTHOOD; PREGNANCY; PRIMARY PREVENTION; SEXUAL BEHAVIOR; SEXUALITY; URBAN POPULATION; ADOLESCENT PREGNANCY; CHILD; CROSS-SECTIONAL STUDY; FEMALE; ILLEGITIMACY; JUVENILE DELINQUENCY; LONGITUDINAL STUDY; RECURRENT DISEASE; RISK; SAFE SEX; STATISTICS; UNITED STATES;

ADOLESCENT; CHILD; CHILD OF IMPAIRED PARENTS; CROSS-SECTIONAL STUDIES; FATHERS; FEMALE; HUMANS; ILLEGITIMACY; JUVENILE DELINQUENCY; LONGITUDINAL STUDIES; MALE; PENNSYLVANIA; PREGNANCY; PREGNANCY IN ADOLESCENCE; RECURRENCE; RISK; SAFE SEX; URBAN POPULATION;

EID: 0036034486     PISSN: 09579664     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/cbm.488     Document Type: Article

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