Testing Social Support Theory: A Multilevel Analysis of Recidivism

Erin A. Orrick, John L. Worrall, Robert G. Morris, Alex R. Piquero, William D. Bales and Xia Wang

Journal of Criminal Justice, 2011, vol. 39, issue 6, 499-508

Abstract: 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.

Date: 2011
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DOI: 10.1016/j.jcrimjus.2011.09.005

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