Scaling Criminal Offending

Journal of Quantitative Criminology

Volumn 28, Issue 3, 2012, Pages 533-557

  Sweeten, Gary ^a  

^a ARIZONA STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Crime scales; Item response theory; Variety scales

Indexed keywords

EID: 84865414056     PISSN: 07484518     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s10940-011-9160-8     Document Type: Review

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