A Mistaken Account of the Age-Crime Curve: Response to Males and Brown (2013)

Journal of Adolescent Research

Volumn 29, Issue 1, 2014, Pages 25-34

  Shulman, Elizabeth P ^a   Steinberg, Laurence ^b   Piquero, Alex R ^c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF PENNSYLVANIA   (United States)

^b TEMPLE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF TEXAS AT DALLAS   (United States)

Author keywords

age crime; developmental; ecological fallacy; offending; poverty; socioeconomic

Indexed keywords

EID: 84888612014     PISSN: 07435584     EISSN: 15526895     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1177/0743558413493005     Document Type: Article

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