Testing Social Support Theory: A Multilevel Analysis of Recidivism

Tests of social support theory have relied on aggregate crime rates as the outcome of interest, but such a focus ignores the potentially important macro-level processes and effects on individual-level behavior We thus perform the first multi-level investigation of social support theory.

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Year of publication:	2011
Authors:	Orrick, Erin A. ; Worrall, John L. ; Morris, Robert G. ; Piquero, Alex R. ; Bales, William D. ; Wang, Xia
Published in:	Journal of Criminal Justice. - Elsevier, ISSN 0047-2352. - Vol. 39.2011, 6, p. 499-508
Publisher:	Elsevier

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Type of publication:	Article
Source:	RePEc - Research Papers in Economics

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