Juvenile delinquency and gender revisited: The family and power-control theory reconceived

European Journal of Criminology

Volumn 4, Issue 1, 2007, Pages 33-58

  Hadjar, Andreas ^a   Baier, Dirk ^b   Boehnke, Klaus ^c   Hagan, John ^d  

^a UNIVERSITY OF BERN   (Switzerland)

^b Criminological Research Institute of Lower Saxony   (Germany)

^c JACOBS UNIVERSITY BREMEN   (Germany)

^d NORTHWESTERN UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Adolescence; Attitudes and Values; Cross Cultural Research; Delinquency; Gendered Socialization; Parental Styles

Indexed keywords

EID: 34248530176     PISSN: 14773708     EISSN: 17412609     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1177/1477370807071729     Document Type: Article

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