The changing role of delinquent peers in childhood and adolescence: Issues, findings and puzzles

Punishment, Places and Perpetrators: Developments in Criminology and Criminal Justice Research

Volumn , Issue , 2012, Pages 279-297

  Weerman, Frank M ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF GRONINGEN   (Netherlands)

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DOI: 10.4324/9781843924760     Document Type: Chapter

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