The self-appraisal questionnaire - A self-report measure for predicting recidivism versus clinician-administered measures: A 5-year follow-up study

Journal of Interpersonal Violence

Volumn 18, Issue 7, 2003, Pages 781-797

  Loza, Wagdy ^a,b   Green, Katherine ^c  

^a CARLETON UNIVERSITY   (Canada)

^b QUEEN S UNIVERSITY   (Canada)

^c NONE

Author keywords

Predicting violent and nonviolent offenders; Recidivism

Indexed keywords

EID: 0038542248     PISSN: 08862605     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1177/0886260503018007006     Document Type: Article

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