The Curious Case of George: A Case Study of a Career Criminal

Criminal Justice Review

Volumn 37, Issue 4, 2012, Pages 512-526

  Cromwell, Paul ^a   Birzer, Michael L ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF SOUTH FLORIDA   (United States)

^b WICHITA STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

crime over the life course; crime delinquency; crime delinquency theory; individual theories of crime causation; other; qualitative methods

Indexed keywords

EID: 84871394591     PISSN: 07340168     EISSN: 15563839     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1177/0734016812465744     Document Type: Article

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