Understanding desistance: Theory testing with formal empirical models

Measuring Crime and Criminality

Volumn , Issue , 2017, Pages 299-333

  Bushway, Shawn D ^a   Paternoster, Raymond ^b  

^a STATE UNIVERSITY OF NEW YORK   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF MARYLAND   (United States)

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