Substance abuse among high-risk sexual offenders: Do measures of lifetime history of substance abuse add to the prediction of recidivism over actuarial risk assessment instruments?

Journal of Interpersonal Violence

Volumn 26, Issue 4, 2011, Pages 683-700

  Looman, Jan ^a   Abracen, Jeffrey ^b  

^a Regional Treatment Centre   (Canada)

^b Central District Parole ^*  (Canada)

Author keywords

alcohol abuse; drug abuse; sex offenders

Indexed keywords

ADDICTION; ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; HUMAN; HUMAN RELATION; MALE; METHODOLOGY; MIDDLE AGED; PREDICTIVE VALUE; PSYCHOLOGICAL ASPECT; RECURRENT DISEASE; RISK ASSESSMENT; SEXUAL CRIME; STATISTICAL MODEL; STATISTICS;

ADULT; AGED; HUMANS; INTERPERSONAL RELATIONS; LOGISTIC MODELS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; PREDICTIVE VALUE OF TESTS; RECURRENCE; RESEARCH DESIGN; RISK ASSESSMENT; SEX OFFENSES; SUBSTANCE-RELATED DISORDERS;

EID: 79952267614     PISSN: 08862605     EISSN: 15526518     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1177/0886260510365871     Document Type: Article

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