Labeling and Cumulative Disadvantage: The Impact of Formal Police Intervention on Life Chances and Crime During Emerging Adulthood

Crime and Delinquency

Volumn 58, Issue 3, 2012, Pages 456-488

  Lopes, Giza ^a   Krohn, Marvin D ^b   Lizotte, Alan J ^a   Schmidt, Nicole M ^a   Vásquez, Bob Edward ^c   Bernburg, Jón Gunnar ^d  

^a STATE UNIVERSITY OF NEW YORK   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF FLORIDA   (United States)

^c TEXAS STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^d UNIVERSITY OF ICELAND   (Iceland)

Author keywords

cumulative disadvantage; labeling theory; life course; police intervention; transition t.a.ulthood

Indexed keywords

EID: 84860499678     PISSN: 00111287     EISSN: 1552387X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1177/0011128712436414     Document Type: Article

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