Community structure and adolescent delinquency in Iceland: A contextual analysis

Criminology

Volumn 45, Issue 2, 2007, Pages 415-444

  Bernburg, Jón Gunnar ^a   Thorlindsson, Thorolfur ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ICELAND   (Iceland)

Author keywords

Adolescent delinquency; Community characteristics; Contextual effects; Normlessness; Social ties; Unsupervised peer activity

Indexed keywords

EID: 34249713712     PISSN: 00111384     EISSN: 17459125     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1745-9125.2007.00083.x     Document Type: Article

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