Constructing crime, Enacting morality: Emotion, crime and anti-social behaviour in an inner-city community

British Journal of Criminology

Volumn 50, Issue 5, 2010, Pages 873-895

  Cromby, John ^a   Brown, Steven D ^a   Gross, Harriet ^a   Locke, Abigail ^a   Patterson, Anne E ^a  

^a LOUGHBOROUGH UNIVERSITY   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

affect; affective; community; discourse; emotion; psychology

Indexed keywords

EID: 77956017596     PISSN: 00070955     EISSN: 14643529     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1093/bjc/azq029     Document Type: Article

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