Young sex offenders: Background, personality, and crime characteristics in a Swedish forensic psychiatric sample

Nordic Journal of Psychiatry

Volumn 54, Issue 2, 2000, Pages 113-120

  Långström, Niklas ^a   Lindblad, Frank ^a  

^a KAROLINSKA INSTITUTE   (Sweden)

Author keywords

Adolescents; Psychopathology; Psychosocial risk factors; Sexual offending; Young adults

Indexed keywords

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; ARTICLE; ATTENTION DEFICIT DISORDER; FEMALE; HUMAN; HYPERACTIVITY; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; NEUROLOGIC DISEASE; NEUROPSYCHIATRY; NORTH AMERICA; PERSONALITY; RISK FACTOR; SEXUAL CRIME; SOCIAL PSYCHOLOGY; SWEDEN; UNITED KINGDOM;

EID: 0342803141     PISSN: 08039488     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/080394800427401     Document Type: Article

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