False confessions and the relationship with offending behaviour and personality among Danish adolescents

Legal and Criminological Psychology

Volumn 12, Issue 2, 2007, Pages 287-296

  Steingrimsdottir, Gunnthora ^a   Hreinsdottir, Hrafnhildur ^a   Gudjonsson, Gisli H ^b   Sigurdsson, Jon Fridrik ^c   Nielsen, Thomas ^a  

^a AARHUS UNIVERSITY   (Denmark)

^b KING'S COLLEGE LONDON   (United Kingdom)

^c LANDSPITALI UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL   (Iceland)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; ARTICLE; CHILD BEHAVIOR; CRIMINAL BEHAVIOR; DEFENSIVE BEHAVIOR; DENIAL; FRIEND; HUMAN; MALE; PARENT; PERSONALITY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; QUESTIONNAIRE; SELF REPORT; TEACHER; VIOLENCE;

EID: 34548846145     PISSN: 13553259     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1348/135532506X153380     Document Type: Article

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