If your friends jumped off of a bridge, would you do it too? Delinquent peers and susceptibility to peer influence

Justice Quarterly

Volumn 27, Issue 4, 2010, Pages 473-491

  Miller, Holly Ventura ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TEXAS AT SAN ANTONIO   (United States)

Author keywords

Delinquent peers; Differential association; Interactive effects; Peer influence; Social learning

Indexed keywords

EID: 77954170591     PISSN: 07418825     EISSN: 17459109     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/07418820903218974     Document Type: Article

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