Birth order and youth delinquent behaviour testing the differential parental control hypothesis in a french representative sample

Psychology, Crime and Law

Volumn 11, Issue 1, 2005, Pages 73-85

  Bègue, Laurent ^a   Roché, Sebastian ^b  

^a UNIV GRENOBLE ALPES   (France)

^b Laboratoire PACTE   (France)

Author keywords

Birth Order Effect; Delinquency; Ordinal Position; Parental Supervision; Sibship Size

Indexed keywords

EID: 12344310231     PISSN: 1068316X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/1068316042000221121     Document Type: Article

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