Sexual fantasies and sensation seeking among psychopathic sexual offenders

Psychology, Crime and Law

Volumn 16, Issue 7, 2010, Pages 617-629

  Skovran, Leah C ^a   Huss, Matthew T ^b   Scalora, Mario J ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF NEBRASKA LINCOLN   (United States)

^b CREIGHTON UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

PCL R; Psychopathy; Sensation seeking; Sexual fantasies; Sexual offenders

Indexed keywords

EID: 77955209337     PISSN: 1068316X     EISSN: 14772744     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/10683160902998025     Document Type: Article

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