Historical Invariance in Delinquency Causation: A Test of Equivalent Models of Delinquency for Two Generations of Adolescents

Crime and Delinquency

Volumn 61, Issue 10, 2015, Pages 1283-1310

  Johnson, Matthew C ^a   Morris, Robert G ^b   Menard, Scott ^c  

^a EAST CAROLINA UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF TEXAS AT DALLAS   (United States)

^c SAM HOUSTON STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

delinquency; general strain theory; intergenerational; longitudinal

Indexed keywords

EID: 84945935435     PISSN: 00111287     EISSN: 1552387X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1177/0011128712446051     Document Type: Article

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