Construct and predictive validity of criminal thinking scales

Criminal Justice and Behavior

Volumn 38, Issue 2, 2011, Pages 174-187

  Taxman, Faye S ^a   Rhodes, Anne Giuranna ^a   Dumenci, Levent ^b  

^a GEORGE MASON UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b VIRGINIA COMMONWEALTH UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

criminal thinking; probationers; substance abuse treatment; TCU Criminal Thinking Scales; treatment

Indexed keywords

EID: 78650968518     PISSN: 00938548     EISSN: 15523594     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1177/0093854810389550     Document Type: Article

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