A preliminary examination of offender needs assessment: Are all those questions really necessary?

Journal of Psychoactive Drugs

Volumn 43, Issue 1 SUPPLIMENT, 2011, Pages 51-57

  Farabee, David ^a   Zhang, Sheldon ^b   Yang, Joy ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^b SAN DIEGO STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Assessment; Needs; Offender; Risk; Self report

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ARTICLE; HEALTH SERVICE; HOUSING; HUMAN; INTERVIEW; MALE; NEEDS ASSESSMENT; OFFENDER; PRISONER; RECIDIVISM; SUBSTANCE ABUSE; VOCATIONAL EDUCATION; MIDDLE AGED;

ADULT; CRIMINALS; HUMANS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; NEEDS ASSESSMENT;

EID: 84855560995     PISSN: 02791072     EISSN: 21599777     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/02791072.2011.602267     Document Type: Article

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