Sex Offenders Emerging from Long-term Imprisonment: A Study of their Long-term Reconviction Rates and of Parole Board Members' Judgements of Their Risk

British Journal of Criminology

Volumn 42, Issue 2, 2002, Pages 371-394

  Hood, Roger ^a   Shute, Stephen ^b   Felizer, Martina ^b   Wilcox, Aidan ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF OXFORD   (United Kingdom)

^b UNIVERSITY OF BIRMINGHAM   (United Kingdom)

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EID: 0036249084     PISSN: 00070955     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1093/bjc/42.2.371     Document Type: Article

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