Social Inequality, Crime, and Deviance

Handbooks of Sociology and Social Research

Volumn , Issue , 2014, Pages 683-714

  Matsueda, Ross L ^a   Grigoryeva, Maria S ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF WASHINGTON   (United States)

Author keywords

Crime; Disadvantage; Incarceration; Life course; Neighborhoods; Norms; Pragmatism; Status; Subculture; Symbolic interactionism

Indexed keywords

EID: 85126005384     PISSN: 13896903     EISSN: 2542839X     Source Type: Book Series    
DOI: 10.1007/978-94-017-9002-4_27     Document Type: Chapter

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