Maybe I Should Do This Alone: A Comparison of Solo and Co-offending Robbery Outcomes

Justice Quarterly

Volumn 32, Issue 6, 2015, Pages 1064-1088

  Tillyer, Marie Skubak ^a   Tillyer, Rob ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TEXAS AT SAN ANTONIO   (United States)

Author keywords

accomplices; co offending; NIBRS; robbery

Indexed keywords

EID: 84938315622     PISSN: 07418825     EISSN: 17459109     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/07418825.2014.883422     Document Type: Article

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