Are the same factors related to participation and frequency of offending by male and female prisoners?

Psychology, Crime and Law

Volumn 12, Issue 5, 2006, Pages 557-572

  Ramoutar, Karen M ^a   Farrington, David P ^a,b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CAMBRIDGE   (United Kingdom)

^b Institute of Criminology   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Gender differences; Labelling; Offending; Personality; Prisoners; Social learning

Indexed keywords

EID: 33748579899     PISSN: 1068316X     EISSN: 14772744     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/10683160500337626     Document Type: Article

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