Investigating the Determinants of the Street Code and its Relation to Offending among Adults

American Journal of Criminal Justice

Volumn 37, Issue 1, 2012, Pages 19-32

  Piquero, Alex R ^a   Intravia, Jonathan ^b   Stewart, Eric ^b   Piquero, Nicole Leeper ^a   Gertz, Marc ^b   Bratton, Jake ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TEXAS AT DALLAS   (United States)

^b FLORIDA STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Crime; Self control; Street code; Subculture

Indexed keywords

EID: 84857140986     PISSN: 10662316     EISSN: 19361351     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s12103-011-9115-5     Document Type: Article

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