Specialized Versus Versatile Intergenerational Transmission of Violence: A New Approach to Studying Intergenerational Transmission from Violent Versus Non-Violent Fathers: Latent Class Analysis

Journal of Quantitative Criminology

Volumn 28, Issue 2, 2012, Pages 245-263

  Besemer, Sytske ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CAMBRIDGE   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Intergenerational transmission; Latent class analysis; Specialization; Violence

Indexed keywords

EID: 84860480180     PISSN: 07484518     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s10940-011-9141-y     Document Type: Article

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