Looking forward in records of young adults convicted of sexual homicide, rape, or molestation as youth: Risks for reoffending

Psychological Reports

Volumn 104, Issue 1, 2009, Pages 155-184

  Busch, Kenneth G ^a   Zagar, Robert John ^b   Grove, William M ^c   Hughes, John Russell ^d   Arbit, Jack ^e   Bussell, Robert E ^b   Bartikowski, Boris ^f  

^a U S DEPARTMENT OF HEALTH AND HUMAN SERVICES   (United States)

^b Consultant to Juvenile Division of the Circuit Court of Cook County ^*  (United States)

^c Private Practice   (United States)

^d UNIVERSITY OF ILLINOIS   (United States)

^e NORTHWESTERN UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^f KEDGE BUSINESS SCHOOL   (France)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; ARTICLE; CHILD SEXUAL ABUSE; COMPARATIVE STUDY; FEMALE; FORENSIC PSYCHIATRY; HOMICIDE; HUMAN; LEGAL ASPECT; MALE; PEDOPHILIA; PRISONER; PSYCHOLOGICAL ASPECT; RAPE; RECURRENT DISEASE; RISK ASSESSMENT; RISK FACTOR; SEXUAL CRIME; STATISTICS; VIOLENCE;

ADOLESCENT; CHILD ABUSE, SEXUAL; FEMALE; FORENSIC PSYCHIATRY; HOMICIDE; HUMANS; MALE; PEDOPHILIA; PRISONERS; RAPE; RECURRENCE; RISK ASSESSMENT; RISK FACTORS; SEX OFFENSES; VIOLENCE; YOUNG ADULT;

EID: 66849084409     PISSN: 00332941     EISSN: 1558691X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.2466/PR0.104.1.155-184     Document Type: Article

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