Statistical profiles of female juvenile homicide offenders: a latent class analysis

The limited research on female juvenile homicide offenders (JHOs) has used largely small clinical samples, and to date, there have been no empirically driven typologies of female JHOs using nationwide samples of offenders. In order to address this gap in the literature, we used a national sample of...

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Main Author: Cochran, John K. (Author)
Contributors: Heide, Kathleen M. 1954- ; Fox, Bryanna ; Khachatryan, Norair
Format: Print Article
Language:English
Published: 2024
In: The Routledge international handbook of juvenile homicide
Year: 2024, Pages: 307-324
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