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Delinquency among Metropolitan Boys:A Progress Report

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Prospective Studies of Crime and Delinquency

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This is a study of juvenile delinquency. All data are taken from the Swedish Project Metropolitan, which is a longitudinal study of a Stockholm cohort. In the analyses, juvenile delinquency is the dependent variable, treated as a function of social and sociopsychological variables.

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  1. Carl-Gunnar Janson
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  1. Social Science Research Institute, University of Southern California, USA

    Katherine Teilmann Van Dusen  & Sarnoff A. Mednick  & 

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Janson, CG. (1983). Delinquency among Metropolitan Boys:A Progress Report. In: Van Dusen, K.T., Mednick, S.A. (eds) Prospective Studies of Crime and Delinquency. Longitudinal Research in the Behavioral, Social and Medical Sciences, vol 2. Springer, Dordrecht. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-94-009-6672-7_9

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