Like Parent Like Child? The Role of Delayed Childrearing in Breaking the Link Between Parent’s Offending and Their Children’s Antisocial Behavior

Justice Quarterly

Volumn 32, Issue 3, 2015, Pages 410-444

  Lizotte, Alan J ^a   Phillips, Matthew D ^a   Krohn, Marvin D ^b   Thornberry, Terence P ^c,d   Bushway, Shawn D ^a   Schmidt, Nicole M ^a  

^a STATE UNIVERSITY OF NEW YORK   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF FLORIDA   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF MARYLAND   (United States)

^d NORTHEASTERN UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

developmental stages; intergenerational delinquency; risk and protective factors; trajectory analysis

Indexed keywords

EID: 84926254634     PISSN: 07418825     EISSN: 17459109     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/07418825.2013.771206     Document Type: Article

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