Life-course desisters? Trajectories of crime among delinquent boys followed to age 70

Criminology

Volumn 41, Issue 3, 2003, Pages 555-592

  Sampson, Robert J ^a,c   Laub, John H ^b,d  

^a HARVARD UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF MARYLAND   (United States)

^c HARVARD UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^d American Society of Criminology   (United States)

Author keywords

Age and crime; Desistance; Prediction; Trajectories; Typologies

Indexed keywords

EID: 1642361879     PISSN: 00111384     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1745-9125.2003.tb00997.x     Document Type: Article

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