Juvenile sexual offenders: Correlates of onset, variety, and desistance of criminal behavior

Criminal Justice and Behavior

Volumn 38, Issue 8, 2011, Pages 854-873

  Carpentier, Julie ^a   Leclerc, Benoit ^b   Proulx, Jean ^c  

^a UNIVERSITÉ DU QUÉBEC À TROIS RIVIÈRES   (Canada)

^b GRIFFITH UNIVERSITY   (Australia)

^c UNIVERSITÉ DE MONTRÉAL   (Canada)

Author keywords

adolescent sexual offenders; criminal activity; desistance; developmental criminology; onset; variety

Indexed keywords

EID: 79959482966     PISSN: 00938548     EISSN: 15523594     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1177/0093854811407730     Document Type: Article

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