Ethical and methodological issues in evaluation research with juvenile sexual abusers

The Handbook of Clinical Intervention with Young People who Sexually Abuse

Volumn , Issue , 2004, Pages 419-441

  Langton, Calvin M ^a   Barbaree, Howard E ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TORONTO   (Canada)

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