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The adult offending and school dropout nexus : a life course analysis / Weiwei Liu.
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Liu, Weiwei, 1979-
- Series:
- Criminal justice (LFB Scholarly Publishing LLC)
- Criminal justice recent scholarship
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Education and crime--United States.
- Education and crime.
- High school dropouts--United States--Social conditions.
- High school dropouts.
- Criminals--United States.
- Criminals.
- Social conditions.
- United States.
- Physical Description:
- xxiii, 234 pages : illustrations ; 23 cm.
- Place of Publication:
- El Paso : LFB Scholarly Pub., 2013.
- Contents:
- Introduction
- Conceptualizing turning points
- Conceptualizing high school graduation as a turning point
- An empirical study of the graduation/dropout-offending relationship
- Data used to assess the causal relationship between graduation/dropout and offending
- Analytical methods to assess the graduation/dropout-offending relationship
- Empirical results on the high school graduation/dropout-offending relationship
- Reconciling the results with past findings on the graduation/ dropout-offending relationship
- Implications for life course criminology and policy making
- Looking into the future.
- Notes:
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- Local Notes:
- Acquired for the Penn Libraries with assistance from the Lipman Criminology Library Fund.
- ISBN:
- 1593325207
- 9781593325206
- OCLC:
- 810123499
- Publisher Number:
- 99952519125
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