Development and refinement of a measure of attitudes toward sex offender treatment

Journal of Offender Rehabilitation

Volumn 43, Issue 3, 2006, Pages 35-47

  Wnuk, Dorota ^a   Chapman, Jason E ^a   Jeglic, Elizabeth L ^b  

^a MEDICAL UNIVERSITY OF SOUTH CAROLINA   (United States)

^b JOHN JAY COLLEGE OF CRIMINAL JUSTICE   (United States)

Author keywords

Attitudes; Public policy; Scale; Sex offender; Treatment

Indexed keywords

EID: 33845604724     PISSN: 10509674     EISSN: 15408558     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1300/J076v43n03_03     Document Type: Article

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