Believing Is Seeing II: Beliefs and Perceptions of Criminal Psychological Profiles

International Journal of Offender Therapy and Comparative Criminology

Volumn 48, Issue 3, 2004, Pages 313-329

  Kocsis, Richard N ^a   Heller, Gillian Z ^b  

^a Macquarie University ^*  (Australia)

^b MACQUARIE UNIVERSITY   (Australia)

Author keywords

Beliefs; Criminal psychological profiling; Perceptions

Indexed keywords

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; ANALYSIS OF VARIANCE; ARTICLE; CRIMINAL PSYCHOLOGICAL PROFILING; CRIMINOLOGY; FEMALE; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; LAW ENFORCEMENT; MALE; NORMAL HUMAN; OFFENDER; PEER REVIEW; POLICE; PSYCHOLOGIC ASSESSMENT; SELF EVALUATION; STUDENT;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; CRIME; CULTURE; FEMALE; HUMANS; MALE; QUESTIONNAIRES; REPRODUCIBILITY OF RESULTS; SOCIAL BEHAVIOR; UNITED STATES; VISUAL PERCEPTION;

EID: 2442610588     PISSN: 0306624X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1177/0306624X03258482     Document Type: Article

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