Those Who Do Big Bad Things also Usually Do Little Bad Things: Identifying Active Serious Offenders Using Offender Self-Selection

International Journal of Police Science and Management

Volumn 9, Issue 1, 2007, Pages 66-79

  Roach, Jason ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF HUDDERSFIELD   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

offender versatility; policing; self selection; Serious criminality

Indexed keywords

EID: 77956564320     PISSN: 14613557     EISSN: 14781603     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1350/ijps.2007.9.1.66     Document Type: Article

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