Male sexual offenders' emotional openness with men and women

Criminal Justice and Behavior

Volumn 35, Issue 9, 2008, Pages 1156-1173

  Underhill, James ^a,b   Wakeling, Helen C ^a,c   Mann, Ruth E ^a   Webster, Stephen D ^a  

^a National Probation Service   (United Kingdom)

^b Smokefree Camden (Public Health)   (United Kingdom)

^c Interventions Group   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Emotional congruence with children; Emotional openness; Intimacy deficits; Scale validation; Sexual offender

Indexed keywords

EID: 49149120817     PISSN: 00938548     EISSN: 15523594     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1177/0093854808320268     Document Type: Article

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