Explaining Adolescents’ Delinquency and Substance Use: A Test of the Maturity Gap: The SNARE study

Journal of Research in Crime and Delinquency

Volumn 52, Issue 5, 2015, Pages 747-767

  Dijkstra, Jan Kornelis ^a,b   Kretschmer, Tina ^a,b,c   Pattiselanno, Kim ^a,b   Franken, Aart ^d   Harakeh, Zeena ^d   Vollebergh, Wilma ^d   Veenstra, René ^a,b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF GRONINGEN   (Netherlands)

^b Interuniversity Center for Social Science Theory and Methodology   (Netherlands)

^c UNIVERSITY MEDICAL CENTER GRONINGEN   (Netherlands)

^d UTRECHT UNIVERSITY   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

adolescence; delinquency; longitudinal; maturity gap; substance use

Indexed keywords

EID: 84938593036     PISSN: 00224278     EISSN: 1552731X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1177/0022427815582249     Document Type: Article

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