Variability in Moral Disengagement and Its Relation to Offending in a Sample of Serious Youthful Offenders

Criminal Justice and Behavior

Volumn 42, Issue 8, 2015, Pages 819-839

  Cardwell, Stephanie M ^a   Piquero, Alex R ^a   Jennings, Wesley G ^b   Copes, Heith ^c   Schubert, Carol A ^d   Mulvey, Edward P ^d  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TEXAS AT DALLAS   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF SOUTH FLORIDA   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF ALABAMA AT BIRMINGHAM   (United States)

^d UNIVERSITY OF PITTSBURGH   (United States)

Author keywords

longitudinal; moral disengagement; offending; serious offenders; trajectories

Indexed keywords

EID: 84937045145     PISSN: 00938548     EISSN: 15523594     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1177/0093854814567472     Document Type: Article

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