An empirical investigation of sexual harassers: Toward a perpetrator typology

Human Relations

Volumn 56, Issue 12, 2003, Pages 1461-1483

  Lucero, Margaret A ^a   Middleton, Karen L ^a   Finch, Wendy A ^b,c   Valentine, Sean R ^d  

^a TEXAS A AND M UNIVERSITY CORPUS CHRISTI   (United States)

^b Central Wyoming College   (United States)

^c Northwest Region College   (United States)

^d UNIVERSITY OF WYOMING   (United States)

Author keywords

Multi method analysis; Perpetrator typology; Sexual harassment

Indexed keywords

EID: 2442543349     PISSN: 00187267     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1177/00187267035612002     Document Type: Article

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