Companion animals and offender rehabilitation - Experiences from a prison therapeutic community in Scotland

Therapeutic Communities

Volumn 29, Issue 3, 2008, Pages 285-296

  Ormerod, Elizabeth ^a  

^a Society for Companion Animal Studies (SCAS)   (United Kingdom)

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