A personality-based typology of adolescent sexual offenders using the Millon adolescent clinical inventory

New Zealand Journal of Psychology

Volumn 35, Issue 1, 2006, Pages 36-44

  Oxnam, Paul ^a   Vess, James ^a  

^a VICTORIA UNIVERSITY OF WELLINGTON   (New Zealand)

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