Official and self-reported childhood abuse and adult crime of young offenders

Criminal Justice and Behavior

Volumn 31, Issue 2, 2004, Pages 127-149

  Haapasalo, Jaana ^a,b   Moilanen, Juha ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF JYVÄSKYLÄ   (Finland)

^b City of Heinola ^*  (Finland)

Author keywords

Child maltreatment; Criminal behavior; Offender; Self report

Indexed keywords

EID: 1642315801     PISSN: 00938548     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1177/0093854803261328     Document Type: Article

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