Crime and parenthood: Age and gender differences in the association between criminal careers and parenthood

Advances in Life Course Research

Volumn 28, Issue , 2016, Pages 65-80

  Huschek, Doreen ^a,b   Blokland, Arjan ^c  

^a STOCKHOLM UNIVERSITY   (Sweden)

^b VU UNIVERSITY AMSTERDAM   (Netherlands)

^c LEIDEN UNIVERSITY   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

Crime; Criminal career; Marriage; Transition to parenthood; Unplanned and planned parenthood

Indexed keywords

EID: 85052242369     PISSN: 15694909     EISSN: 18796974     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.alcr.2015.09.006     Document Type: Article

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