Male batterer profiles: Support for an Empirically Generated Typology

Journal of Offender Rehabilitation

Volumn 44, Issue 2-3, 2006, Pages 117-131

  Chiffriller, Sheila H ^a   Hennessy, James J ^b  

^a PACE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b FORDHAM UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Batter; Discriminant analysis; Domestic violence factor implication; Offender; Profile; Typology

Indexed keywords

EID: 34250209837     PISSN: 10509674     EISSN: 15408558     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1300/J076v44n02_05     Document Type: Article

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