Clinical versus actuarial judgments in criminal justice decisions: Should one replace the other?

Federal Probation

Volumn 70, Issue 2, 2006, Pages

  Gottfredson, Stephen D ^a   Moriarty, Laura J ^a  

^a VIRGINIA COMMONWEALTH UNIVERSITY   (United States)

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