Does economic adversity breed criminal cooperation? Considering the motivation behind group crime

Criminology

Volumn 51, Issue 4, 2013, Pages 833-870

  Nguyen, Holly ^a   Mcgloin, Jean Marie ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MARYLAND   (United States)

Author keywords

Adversity; Co offending; Decision making; Groups

Indexed keywords

EID: 84888129815     PISSN: 00111384     EISSN: 17459125     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/1745-9125.12021     Document Type: Article

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