Teenagers' High Arrest Rates: Features of Young Age or Youth Poverty?

Journal of Adolescent Research

Volumn 29, Issue 1, 2014, Pages 3-24

  Males, Mike A ^a   Brown, Elizabeth A ^b  

^a Center on Juvenile and Criminal Justice   (United States)

^b SAN FRANCISCO STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

brain development; delinquency crime; emerging adulthood; ethnic issues; risk behavior; violence

Indexed keywords

EID: 84888612920     PISSN: 07435584     EISSN: 15526895     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1177/0743558413493004     Document Type: Article

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