Onset age, persistence, and offending versatility: Comparisons across gender

Criminology

Volumn 38, Issue 4, 2000, Pages 1143-1172

  Mazerolle, Paul ^b   Brame, Robert ^c   Paternoster, Ray ^c   Piquero, Alex ^c   Dean, Charles ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF NORTH CAROLINA AT CHARLOTTE   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF QUEENSLAND   (Australia)

^c University of North Carolina ^*

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EID: 0039423889     PISSN: 00111384     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1745-9125.2000.tb01417.x     Document Type: Article

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