One Bad Apple May Not Spoil the Whole Bunch: Best Friends and Adolescent Delinquency

Journal of Quantitative Criminology

Volumn 27, Issue 2, 2011, Pages 197-223

  Rees, Carter ^a   Pogarsky, Greg ^a  

^a STATE UNIVERSITY OF NEW YORK   (United States)

Author keywords

Add health; Best friend; Delinquency; Peers; Social learning; Social networks

Indexed keywords

EID: 79955614901     PISSN: 07484518     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s10940-010-9103-9     Document Type: Article

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