Offending and Early Death in the Cambridge Study in Delinquent Development

Justice Quarterly

Volumn 31, Issue 3, 2014, Pages 445-472

  Piquero, Alex R ^a   Farrington, David P ^b   Shepherd, Jonathan P ^c   Auty, Katherine ^d  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TEXAS AT DALLAS   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF CAMBRIDGE   (United Kingdom)

^c CARDIFF UNIVERSITY   (United Kingdom)

^d UNIVERSITY OF LONDON   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

early death; health; longitudinal; offending; trajectories

Indexed keywords

EID: 84898491183     PISSN: 07418825     EISSN: 17459109     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/07418825.2011.641027     Document Type: Article

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