Comparing nonviolent, other-violent, and domestic batterer sex offenders: Predictive accuracy of risk assessments on sexual recidivism

Criminal Justice and Behavior

Volumn 37, Issue 5, 2010, Pages 613-628

  Stalans, Loretta J ^a   Hacker, Robyn ^a   Talbot, Mary E ^a  

^a LOYOLA UNIVERSITY CHICAGO   (United States)

Author keywords

Domestic batterers; Risk assessment; Sexual recidivism; Static 2002; Static 99

Indexed keywords

EID: 77950332471     PISSN: 00938548     EISSN: 15523594     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1177/0093854810363794     Document Type: Article

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