How many offenses are really committed per juvenile court offender?

Victims and Offenders

Volumn 2, Issue 3, 2007, Pages 227-249

  Farrington, David P ^a   Jolliffe, Darrick ^a   Loeber, Rolf ^b   Homish, Lynn D ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CAMBRIDGE   (United Kingdom)

^b UNIVERSITY OF PITTSBURGH   (United States)

Author keywords

Juvenile court petitions; Longitudinal study; Probability of detection; Self reported offending

Indexed keywords

EID: 34547574370     PISSN: 15564886     EISSN: 15564991     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/15564880701403934     Document Type: Article

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