Criminal achievement, criminal career initiation, and detection avoidance: The onset of successful sex offending

Journal of Crime and Justice

Volumn 35, Issue 3, 2012, Pages 376-394

  Lussier, Patrick ^a   Mathesius, Jeff ^a  

^a SIMON FRASER UNIVERSITY   (Canada)

Author keywords

Age of onset; Criminal careers; Detection avoidance; Sex offenders

Indexed keywords

EID: 84979083478     PISSN: 0735648X     EISSN: 21589119     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/0735648X.2012.666842     Document Type: Article

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