Job analysis of felony assistant public defenders: The most important tasks and most useful knowledge, skills, and abilities

Psychology, Crime and Law

Volumn 3, Issue 1, 1997, Pages 37-49

  Prager, Irene G ^a   Moran, Gary ^a   Sanchez, Juan ^a  

^a FLORIDA INTERNATIONAL UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Indigent defendants; Job analysis; Personnel selection and training; Public defenders; Tasks, knowledge, skills, and abilities

Indexed keywords

EID: 26444479814     PISSN: 1068316X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/10683169608409793     Document Type: Article

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