Do Women and Men Differ in Their Neutralizations of Corporate Crime?

Criminal Justice Review

Volumn 37, Issue 4, 2012, Pages 478-493

  Vieraitis, Lynne M ^a   Piquero, Nicole Leeper ^a   Piquero, Alex R ^a   Tibbetts, Stephen G ^b   Blankenship, Michael ^c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TEXAS AT DALLAS   (United States)

^b CALIFORNIA STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^c BOISE STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

corporate crime; gender; neutralization; offending

Indexed keywords

EID: 84871361427     PISSN: 07340168     EISSN: 15563839     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1177/0734016812465745     Document Type: Article

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