Youth employment and delinquency: Reconsidering a problematic relationship

Criminology

Volumn 35, Issue 4, 1997, Pages 659-676

  Ploeger, Matthew ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TEXAS AT AUSTIN   (United States)

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EID: 0040645696     PISSN: 00111384     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1745-9125.1997.tb01234.x     Document Type: Article

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