People with Intellectual Disabilities who Offend or Are Alleged to Have Offended

Assessing Adults with Intellectual Disabilities: A Service Providers' Guide

Volumn , Issue , 2008, Pages 86-97

  Anderson, Gillian ^a  

^a Kirklands Hospital   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Adaptive behaviour; Intellectual disabilities; Intellectual functioning; Offending behaviour; Risk assessment

Indexed keywords

EID: 33746661808     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Book    
DOI: 10.1002/9780470773697.ch6     Document Type: Chapter

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