Accreditation of offending behaviour programmes in HM Prison Service: 'What Works' in practice

Legal and Criminological Psychology

Volumn 8, Issue 1, 2003, Pages 69-81

  Blud, Linda ^b   Travers, Rosie ^a   Nugent, Francis ^a   Thornton, David ^b  

^a National Probation Service   (United Kingdom)

^b NONE

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Indexed keywords

ACCREDITATION; ARTICLE; BEHAVIORAL SCIENCE; COGNITION; CONTROLLED STUDY; CRIMINOLOGY; FEMALE; HUMAN; IMPULSIVENESS; INFORMATION PROCESSING; INTERVIEW; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MEASUREMENT; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PRISON; PROBLEM SOLVING; QUALITY CONTROL; RATING SCALE; UNITED KINGDOM; VIDEORECORDING;

EID: 0037331235     PISSN: 13553259     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1348/135532503762871255     Document Type: Article

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