Comparing Official and Self-report Records of Offending across Gender and Race/Ethnicity in a Longitudinal Study of Serious Youthful Offenders

Journal of Research in Crime and Delinquency

Volumn 51, Issue 4, 2014, Pages 526-556

  Piquero, Alex R ^a   Schubert, Carol A ^b   Brame, Robert ^c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TEXAS AT DALLAS   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF PITTSBURGH   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF SOUTH CAROLINA   (United States)

Author keywords

arrests; gender; longitudinal; official records; race ethnicity; self reports; serious offenders

Indexed keywords

EID: 84907885111     PISSN: 00224278     EISSN: 1552731X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1177/0022427813520445     Document Type: Article

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