Sexual offending and the treatment of sex offenders

Psychiatry

Volumn 6, Issue 11, 2007, Pages 439-443

  Grubin, Don ^a  

^a NEWCASTLE UNIVERSITY   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

dynamic risk factors; polygraphy; psychometric testing; sex offenders; sex offending; static risk factors

Indexed keywords

GOSERELIN; LEUPRORELIN; SEROTONIN UPTAKE INHIBITOR; TRIPTORELIN;

AGE DISTRIBUTION; COGNITIVE THERAPY; CONFIDENTIALITY; COOPERATION; EMOTION; FEMALE SEXUAL DYSFUNCTION; HORMONAL THERAPY; HUMAN; INTIMACY; LIBIDO; LIBIDO DISORDER; LIFESTYLE; MULTICHANNEL RECORDER; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PSYCHOLOGIC ASSESSMENT; PSYCHOMETRY; REVIEW; RISK ASSESSMENT; SELF CARE; SEXUAL CRIME; SEXUALITY; THINKING; TREATMENT OUTCOME; VICTIM;

EID: 35548935056     PISSN: 14761793     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.mppsy.2007.08.002     Document Type: Review

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