Family formation and crime: What role for the family network?

Advances in Life Course Research

Volumn 28, Issue , 2016, Pages 41-51

  Lyngstad, Torkild Hovde ^a   Skardhamar, Torbjørn ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF OSLO   (Norway)

Author keywords

Crime; Family network; Hazard models; Marriage; Parenthood; Register data

Indexed keywords

EID: 85019806981     PISSN: 15694909     EISSN: 18796974     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.alcr.2015.09.007     Document Type: Article

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