Life Course Offending Pathways Across Gender and Race/Ethnicity

Journal of Developmental and Life-Course Criminology

Volumn 1, Issue 2, 2015, Pages 118-149

  Broidy, Lisa M ^a   Stewart, Anna L ^a   Thompson, Carleen M ^a   Chrzanowski, April ^a   Allard, Troy ^a   Dennison, Susan M ^a  

^a GRIFFITH UNIVERSITY   (Australia)

Author keywords

Developmental and life course theory; Gender; Offending trajectories; Race ethnicity

Indexed keywords

EID: 84938887652     PISSN: 21994641     EISSN: 2199465X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s40865-015-0008-z     Document Type: Article

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