Misinformation, misunderstanding and misleading as validity threats to offenders’ accounts of offending

Offenders on Offending: Learning about Crime from Criminals

Volumn , Issue , 2013, Pages 13-22

  Elffers, Henk ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF AMSTERDAM   (Netherlands)

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DOI: 10.4324/9781843927785     Document Type: Chapter

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