Is it who you know, or how many that counts? criminal networks and cost avoidance in a sample of young offenders

Justice Quarterly

Volumn 27, Issue 1, 2010, Pages 130-158

  Bouchard, Martin ^a   Nguyen, Holly ^a  

^a SIMON FRASER UNIVERSITY   (Canada)

Author keywords

Cannabis cultivation; Cost avoidance; Criminal achievement; Criminal networks; Social capital

Indexed keywords

EID: 74349088317     PISSN: 07418825     EISSN: 17459109     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/07418820802593386     Document Type: Article

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