Family, social and personal variables in adolescent sex offenders

Irish Journal of Psychology

Volumn 22, Issue 3-4, 2001, Pages 198-212

  Symboluk, Amanda ^a,c   Cummings, Anne L ^c   Leschied, Alan W ^b  

^a Lucena Clinic   (Ireland)

^b UNIVERSITY OF WESTERN ONTARIO   (Canada)

^c c/o Lucena Clinic ^*

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