Shifting Perspectives: Cognitive Changes Mediate the Impact of Romantic Relationships on Desistance from Crime

Justice Quarterly

Volumn 31, Issue 5, 2014, Pages 793-821

  Simons, Ronald L ^a   Barr, Ashley B ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF GEORGIA   (United States)

Author keywords

diathesis stress model; differential susceptibility hypothesis; genetic determinism; plasticity alleles

Indexed keywords

EID: 84904246213     PISSN: 07418825     EISSN: 17459109     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/07418825.2012.704388     Document Type: Article

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