Understanding Gang Membership and Crime Victimization Among Jail Inmates: Testing the Effects of Self-Control

Crime and Delinquency

Volumn 59, Issue 5, 2013, Pages 764-787

  Fox, Kathleen A ^a   Lane, Jodi ^b   Akers, Ronald L ^b  

^a ARIZONA STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF FLORIDA   (United States)

Author keywords

crime victimization; gang; general theory of crime; jail inmates; self control

Indexed keywords

EID: 84880604656     PISSN: 00111287     EISSN: 1552387X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1177/0011128710392003     Document Type: Article

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