Does dropping out of school mean dropping into delinquency?

Criminology

Volumn 47, Issue 1, 2009, Pages 47-91

  Sweeten, Garyy ^a,d   Bushway, Shawn D ^b   Paternoster, Raymond ^c  

^a ARIZONA STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b STATE UNIVERSITY OF NEW YORK   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF MARYLAND   (United States)

^d ARIZONA STATE UNIVERSITY WEST   (United States)

Author keywords

Crime; Delinquency; High school dropout; Identity theory

Indexed keywords

EID: 61649124880     PISSN: 00111384     EISSN: 17459125     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1745-9125.2009.00139.x     Document Type: Article

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