Does It Cost More to Be a Female Offender? A Life-Course Study of Childhood Circumstances, Crime, Drug Abuse, and Living Conditions

Feminist Criminology

Volumn 7, Issue 3, 2012, Pages 196-219

  Estrada, Felipe ^a   Nilsson, Anders ^a  

^a STOCKHOLM UNIVERSITY   (Sweden)

Author keywords

criminality; drug abuse; gender; longitudinal; social exclusion; Stockholm Birth Cohort

Indexed keywords

EID: 84861791792     PISSN: 15570851     EISSN: 1557086X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1177/1557085111429783     Document Type: Article

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