Patterns of sexual aggression in a community sample of young men: Risk factors associated with persistence, desistance, and initiation over a 1-year interval

Psychology of Violence

Volumn 2, Issue 1, 2012, Pages 1-15

  Abbey, Antonia ^a   Wegner, Rhiana ^a   Pierce, Jennifer ^a   Jacques Tiura, Angela J ^a  

^a WAYNE STATE UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

Author keywords

etiology; perpetration; prospective design; Sexual aggression; sexual assault

Indexed keywords

EID: 84871394905     PISSN: 21520828     EISSN: 2152081X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1037/a0026346     Document Type: Article

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