Differential cost avoidance and successful criminal careers: Random or rational?

Crime and Delinquency

Volumn 53, Issue 1, 2007, Pages 38-63

  Kazemian, Lila ^a   Le Blanc, Marc ^b  

^a JOHN JAY COLLEGE OF CRIMINAL JUSTICE   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITÉ DE MONTRÉAL   (Canada)

Author keywords

Desistance; Differential cost avoidance; Residual criminal careers; Success

Indexed keywords

EID: 33845387160     PISSN: 00111287     EISSN: 1552387X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1177/0011128706294438     Document Type: Article

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