Social class and criminality among young people: A study considering the effects of school achievement as a mediating factor on the basis of swedish register and self-report data

Journal of Scandinavian Studies in Criminology and Crime Prevention

Volumn 8, Issue 2, 2007, Pages 210-233

  Ring, Jonas ^a   Svensson, Robert ^b  

^a STOCKHOLM UNIVERSITY   (Sweden)

^b Swedish National Council for Crime Prevention   (Sweden)

Author keywords

Criminality; Register study; School achievement; Self report study; Social class; Sweden

Indexed keywords

EID: 49549096451     PISSN: 14043858     EISSN: 16512340     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/14043850701610451     Document Type: Article

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