Risk and the preventive detention of sex offenders in Australia and the United States

International Journal of Law and Psychiatry

Volumn 30, Issue 1, 2007, Pages 49-59

  Mercado, Cynthia Calkins ^a   Ogloff, James R P ^b,c  

^a John Jay College of Criminal Justice   (Australia)

^b MONASH UNIVERSITY   (Australia)

^c VICTORIAN INSTITUTE OF FORENSIC MENTAL HEALTH   (Australia)

Author keywords

Fardon; Kansas v. Hendricks; Post sentence commitment; Preventive detention; Sex offender; Sexual offense; Sexually violent predator

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; AUSTRALIA; DETENTION; HUMAN; LITERATURE; RECIDIVISM; RISK ASSESSMENT; RISK FACTOR; SEXUAL CRIME; UNITED STATES;

AUSTRALIA; COMMITMENT OF MENTALLY ILL; DANGEROUS BEHAVIOR; HUMANS; PRISONERS; RECURRENCE; RISK ASSESSMENT; SEX OFFENSES; UNITED STATES; VIOLENCE;

EID: 33845442176     PISSN: 01602527     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.ijlp.2006.02.001     Document Type: Article

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