What drives juvenile probation officers?: Relating organizational contexts, status characteristics, and personal convictions to treatment and punishment orientations

Crime and Delinquency

Volumn 56, Issue 1, 2010, Pages 35-69

  Ward, Geoff ^a   Kupchik, Aaron ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF DELAWARE   (United States)

Author keywords

Attitudes; Court context; Juvenile court; Probation officer

Indexed keywords

EID: 70949091394     PISSN: 00111287     EISSN: 1552387X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1177/0011128707307960     Document Type: Article

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