The relationship between blame attribution, age and personality characteristics in inmates admitted to Grendon therapeutic prison

Personality and Individual Differences

Volumn 23, Issue 6, 1997, Pages 943-947

  Shine, John Henry ^a  

^a Grendon Underwood   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Age; Blame attribution; Grendon; Personality; Therapeutic communities

Indexed keywords

EID: 0031537201     PISSN: 01918869     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0191-8869(97)00128-1     Document Type: Article

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