On intelligence and crime: A comparison of incarcerated sex offenders and serious non-sexual violent criminals

International Journal of Law and Psychiatry

Volumn 28, Issue 4, 2005, Pages 405-417

  Guay, Jean Pierre ^a,b   Ouimet, Marc ^a   Proulx, Jean ^a  

^a Institut Philippe Pinel de Montreal   (Canada)

^b UNIVERSITÉ DE MONTRÉAL   (Canada)

Author keywords

Crime; Intelligence; Offense planning; Sex offenders

Indexed keywords

ADULT; AGED; ANALYSIS OF VARIANCE; ARITHMETIC; ARTICLE; COMPREHENSION; CONTROLLED STUDY; CRIMINAL LAW; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; HYPOTHESIS; INTELLIGENCE; INTELLIGENCE QUOTIENT; LINGUISTICS; MATHEMATICAL COMPUTING; MEDICAL ASSESSMENT; PSYCHOLOGICAL THEORY; SAMPLE; SEXUAL CRIME; VIOLENCE;

EID: 22544482034     PISSN: 01602527     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.ijlp.2004.03.010     Document Type: Article

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