Not just a boy’s club: An empirical assessment of female career criminals

Women and Criminal Justice

Volumn 13, Issue 4, 2002, Pages 27-45

  DeLisi, Matt ^a  

^a IOWA STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Career criminal; Female offenders; Gender; Habitual criminality; Male offenders

Indexed keywords

EID: 84937378754     PISSN: 08974454     EISSN: 15410323     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1300/J012v13n04_03     Document Type: Article

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