Traits and states: Integrating personality and affect into a model of criminal decision making

Criminology

Volumn 50, Issue 3, 2012, Pages 637-671

  Van Gelder, Jean Louis ^a   De Vries, Reinout E ^b  

^a NETHERLANDS INSTITUTE FOR THE STUDY OF CRIME AND LAW ENFORCEMENT   (Netherlands)

^b VU UNIVERSITY AMSTERDAM   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

Affect; Crime; Dual process models; Personality; Rational choice; Self control

Indexed keywords

EID: 84864037852     PISSN: 00111384     EISSN: 17459125     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1745-9125.2012.00276.x     Document Type: Article

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