Unsafe at Any Age: Linking Childhood and Adolescent Maltreatment to Delinquency and Crime

Journal of Research in Crime and Delinquency

Volumn 49, Issue 2, 2012, Pages 295-318

  Mersky, Joshua P ^a   Topitzes, James ^a   Reynolds, Arthur J ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF WISCONSIN MILWAUKEE   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF MINNESOTA   (United States)

Author keywords

causes correlates; crime; criminological theory; developmental theories; juvenile delinquency; life course theory; quantitative research; research methods

Indexed keywords

EID: 84860678898     PISSN: 00224278     EISSN: 1552731X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1177/0022427811415284     Document Type: Article

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