The psychological characteristics of 'false confessors'. A study among Icelandic prison inmates and juvenile offenders

Personality and Individual Differences

Volumn 20, Issue 3, 1996, Pages 321-329

  Sigurdsson, Jon F ^a   Gudjonsson, Gisli H ^b  

^a Natl Prison/Probation Admin   (Iceland)

^b KING'S COLLEGE LONDON   (United Kingdom)

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EID: 0030101128     PISSN: 01918869     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/0191-8869(95)00184-0     Document Type: Article

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