Reliability and Validity of Self-Reported Delinquency Studies: A Review
- 1 June 1979
- journal article
- review article
- Published by SAGE Publications in Psychological Reports
- Vol. 44 (3), 987-993
- https://doi.org/10.2466/pr0.1979.44.3.987
Abstract
This paper reviewed recent studies which showed that the self-report method of delinquency is relatively reliable and valid.Keywords
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