Mentors and criminal achievement

Criminology

Volumn 44, Issue 1, 2006, Pages 17-43

  Morselli, Carlo ^a,c   Tremblay, Pierre ^a   McCarthy, Bill ^b  

^a UNIVERSITÉ DE MONTRÉAL   (Canada)

^b UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^c School of Criminology   (Canada)

Author keywords

Co offending; Criminal achievement; Criminal career; Low self control; Mentor; Networks; Structural holes

Indexed keywords

EID: 33645081699     PISSN: 00111384     EISSN: 17459125     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1745-9125.2006.00041.x     Document Type: Review

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