Attribution of personal characteristics to victims of rape - Police officers' perspectives

Studia Psychologica

Volumn 51, Issue 1, 2009, Pages 85-100

  Areh, Igor ^a   Mešico, Gorazd ^a   Umek, Peter ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MARIBOR   (Slovenia)

Author keywords

Attribution of blame; Personal characteristics; Police officers; Rape

Indexed keywords

EID: 67649110993     PISSN: 00393320     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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