Sex differences in age patterns of delinquent/criminal careers: Results from poisson latent class analyses of the Philadelphia Cohort study

Journal of Quantitative Criminology

Volumn 18, Issue 4, 2002, Pages 349-375

  D'Unger, Amy V ^a   Land, Kenneth C ^b   McCall, Patricia L ^c  

^a EMORY UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b DUKE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^c NORTH CAROLINA STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Age crime curve; Categories of offenders; Latent class analysis; Sex differences in offending

Indexed keywords

EID: 0036437254     PISSN: 07484518     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1023/A:1021117626767     Document Type: Article

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