Differentiating sex offences: A behaviorally based thematic classification of stranger rapes

Behavioral Sciences and the Law

Volumn 21, Issue 2, 2003, Pages 157-174

  Canter, David V ^a   Bennell, Craig ^b   Alison, Laurence J ^b   Reddy, Steve ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF LIVERPOOL   (United Kingdom)

^b NONE

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BEHAVIOR; CRIME; EMPIRICISM; HOSTILITY; HUMAN; INTIMACY; RAPE; REVIEW; SEXUAL BEHAVIOR; SEXUAL CRIME; THEFT;

GREAT BRITAIN; HOSTILITY; HUMANS; MODELS, PSYCHOLOGICAL; MOTIVATION; POWER (PSYCHOLOGY); RAPE; REPRODUCIBILITY OF RESULTS; SEX OFFENSES; SEXUAL BEHAVIOR; SOCIAL BEHAVIOR;

EID: 0037246092     PISSN: 07353936     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/bsl.526     Document Type: Review

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