Once a sex offender... always a sex offender: Myth or fact?

Journal of Police and Criminal Psychology

Volumn 17, Issue 2, 2002, Pages 32-44

  Turner, Elizabeth ^a   Rubin, Stephen ^a  

^a WHITMAN COLLEGE   (United States)

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EID: 58149199679     PISSN: 08820783     EISSN: 19366469     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/BF02807113     Document Type: Article

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