No evidence of racial discrimination in criminal justice processing: Results from the National Longitudinal Study of Adolescent Health

Personality and Individual Differences

Volumn 55, Issue 1, 2013, Pages 29-34

  Beaver, Kevin M ^a,b   DeLisi, Matt ^c   Wright, John Paul ^d   Boutwell, Brian B ^e   Barnes, J C ^f   Vaughn, Michael G ^g  

^a FLORIDA STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b KING ABDULAZIZ UNIVERSITY   (Saudi Arabia)

^c IOWA STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^d UNIVERSITY OF CINCINNATI   (United States)

^e SAM HOUSTON STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^f UNIVERSITY OF TEXAS AT DALLAS   (United States)

^g SAINT LOUIS UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Criminal justice; Intelligence; Race; Violence

Indexed keywords

EID: 84875579890     PISSN: 01918869     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.paid.2013.01.020     Document Type: Article

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