Learning To Be Bad: Adverse Social Conditions, Social Schemas, And Crime

Criminology

Volumn 49, Issue 2, 2011, Pages 553-598

  Simons, Ronald L ^a   Burt, Callie Harbin ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF GEORGIA   (United States)

^b ARIZONA STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Crime; Criminological theory; Discrimination; Integrated theory; Social schemas

Indexed keywords

EID: 79956369696     PISSN: 00111384     EISSN: 17459125     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1745-9125.2011.00231.x     Document Type: Article

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