Mechanisms linking depression to delinquency for males and females

Feminist Criminology

Volumn 5, Issue 1, 2010, Pages 8-28

  Vaske, Jamie ^a   Gehring, Krista ^b  

^a WESTERN CAROLINA UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF CINCINNATI   (United States)

Author keywords

Delinquency; Depression; Female delinquency; Gender; Male delinquency; Pathways mechanisms; Theoretical explanations of delinquency

Indexed keywords

EID: 77649247786     PISSN: 15570851     EISSN: 1557086X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1177/1557085109345468     Document Type: Article

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