What's in a measure? a multi-method study of child sexual offenders' beliefs

Psychology, Crime and Law

Volumn 16, Issue 1-2, 2010, Pages 125-143

  Keown, Kirsten ^a   Gannon, Theresa A ^b   Ward, Tony ^a  

^a VICTORIA UNIVERSITY OF WELLINGTON   (New Zealand)

^b UNIVERSITY OF KENT   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Belief; Child molesters; Child sexual offenders; Cognition; Experimental; Multi method

Indexed keywords

EID: 77951188254     PISSN: 1068316X     EISSN: 14772744     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/10683160802622022     Document Type: Article

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