What community supervision officers need to know about actuarial risk assessment and clinical judgment

Federal Probation

Volumn 70, Issue 2, 2006, Pages

  Harris, Patricia M ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TEXAS AT SAN ANTONIO   (United States)

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