Assessing the impact of drug use and drug selling on violent offending in a panel of delinquent youth

Journal of Drug Issues

Volumn 42, Issue 3, 2012, Pages 298-316

  Phillips, Matthew D ^a  

^a STATE UNIVERSITY OF NEW YORK   (United States)

Author keywords

Causal analysis; Drug offending; Fixed effects; Random effects; Violence

Indexed keywords

EID: 84877851631     PISSN: 00220426     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1177/0022042612456017     Document Type: Article

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