Rationalizing Delinquency: Understanding the Person-situation Interaction through Item Response Theory

Kyle J. Thomas

doi:10.1177/0022427818789752

Rationalizing Delinquency: Understanding the Person-situation Interaction through Item Response Theory

Kyle J. Thomas

University of Missouri-St. Louis

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Original language	American English
Journal	Journal of Research in Crime and Delinquency
DOIs	https://doi.org/10.1177/0022427818789752
State	Published - Jul 26 2018

Keywords

rationalizations
item response theory
delinquency

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Psychology

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