Abstainers in Adolescence and Adulthood: Exploring the Correlates of Abstention Using Moffitt’s Developmental Taxonomy

Crime and Delinquency

Volumn 61, Issue 5, 2015, Pages 690-718

  Owens, Jennifer Gatewood ^a   Slocum, Lee Ann ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MISSOURI ST LOUIS   (United States)

Author keywords

Abstainer; delinquency; Moffitt; taxonomy; undesirable personal charcteristics

Indexed keywords

EID: 84930406066     PISSN: 00111287     EISSN: 1552387X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1177/0011128711427234     Document Type: Article

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