False positives among adolescent sex offenders: Concurrent and predictive validity of the millon adolescent clinical inventory

Journal of Offender Rehabilitation

Volumn 39, Issue 4, 2004, Pages 1-13

  Kennedy, Wallace A ^a   Licht, Mark H ^a   Caminez, Mary ^a  

^a FLORIDA STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Adolescent; Concurrent validity of the MACI; False positives of the MACI; Male sexual offenders; Millon Adolescent Clinical Inventory; Predictive validity of the MACI; Risk assessment

Indexed keywords

EID: 34248600725     PISSN: 10509674     EISSN: 15408558     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1300/J076v39n04_01     Document Type: Article

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