On the reliability and validity on self-reported illegal earnings: implications for the study of criminal achievement

The study of the monetary returns to criminal activity is a central component in many emerging areas of criminology, including rational choice and offender decision-making, desistance, and criminal achievement. Scholars have been increasingly captivated with specification of the earnings function an...

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Authors: Nguyen, Holly (Author) ; Loughran, Thomas A. (Author)
Format: Electronic Article
Language:English
Published: 2017
In: Criminology
Year: 2017, Volume: 55, Issue: 3, Pages: 575-602
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