Constructing Joseph Fredericks: Competing narratives of a child sex murderer

International Journal of Law and Psychiatry

Volumn 28, Issue 1, 2005, Pages 75-96

  Petrunik, Michael ^a   Weisman, Richard ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF OTTAWA   (Canada)

^b YORK UNIVERSITY   (Canada)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CHILD SEXUAL ABUSE; CHILD WELFARE; COMMUNITY CARE; CRIMINAL BEHAVIOR; HOMICIDE; HUMAN; LITERATURE; MALE; MENTAL DISEASE; POLICY; RECIDIVISM; REVIEW; VICTIM;

EID: 13844254267     PISSN: 01602527     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.ijlp.2004.12.005     Document Type: Article

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