Who Defines Delinquency: A Comparison of Self-Reported and Officially-Reported Indices of Delinquency for Three Racial Groups
- 1 January 1969
- journal article
- Published by Oxford University Press (OUP) in Social Problems
- Vol. 16 (3) , 325-336
- https://doi.org/10.2307/799666
Abstract
Because of the limitations inherent in “official” delinquency statistics, many criminologists have turned to self-report delinquency measures. In doinKeywords
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